BUCKINGHAM EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT CENTER

BUCKINGHAM EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT CENTER is an unified-grade school of tiny scale in FORT MYERS, Florida, run under LEE, enrolling 60 students in grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 83% below the state mean of about 353.

Across the 116 schools in LEE (102,524 students total), BUCKINGHAM EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT CENTER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, BUCKINGHAM EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT CENTER logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 27% White, 18% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Lee County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. Roughly 62% of students at BUCKINGHAM EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT CENTER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lee County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Lee County indicate median household income runs about $76,107, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Lee County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), BUCKINGHAM EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT CENTER is one campus in the mix.

RIVERDALE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. BUCKINGHAM EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT CENTER's enrollment has decreased 31% since 2018, when it stood at 87 (now 60). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 30% to 48%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 5.5:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.