COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of moderately sized scale in FORT MYERS, Florida, operated by LEE, instructing 661 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 116 schools in LEE (102,524 students total), COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 37% Black, 10% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Lee County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Lee County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.7%; COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 30.4%, -17.4 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lee County put median household earnings sit near $76,107, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lee County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CITY OF PALMS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 807 students in 2018 compared to 661 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 53% to 37% over that span.

Inside the community feed, the feed for COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.