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Enrollment
661
Elementary
DISTRICT 805 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEE·NCES 120108002834
COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3800 SCHOOLHOUSE RD E, FORT MYERS, FL 33916 · (239) 939-2242 · Lee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL661 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of Florida public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
441 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 130 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 119 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (130) is 35% larger than its 5th grade class (96).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
31.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.1pp since 2023
Math
41.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.6% | 41.1% |
| 2023-24 | 24.5% | 36.2% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
30.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (30.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 661 | 66.7% | 30.4% |
| ENDEAVOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COCOA | 732 | 65.7% | 24.8% |
| EDGEWOOD ACADEMY FORT MYERS | 598 | 68.7% | 35.8% |
| PALM BEACH MARITIME ACADEMY ELEMENTARY LANTANA | 579 | 67.4% | 46.3% |
| WYNNEBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 629 | 64.5% | 62.2% |
| WEATHERBEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT PIERCE | 726 | 62.8% | 36.6% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Lee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #2,069 of 2,136 | #54 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.1% | #1,890 of 2,149 ▲ 50 | #46 of 58 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #2,033 of 2,149 ▲ 66 | #53 of 58 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 661 | #834 of 2,267 | #44 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #566 of 2,077 | #4 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.0% | #829 of 2,108 | #16 of 58 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.7% | #598 of 2,188 | #12 of 59 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.1% | #571 of 1,374 | #6 of 24 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
661
-115 (-15%) vs 2020
-12% since 2000-01, when it was 749
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 15.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 661 | 45 | 14.7:1 | 67% (441) |
| 2023-24 | 655 | 29 | 22.6:1 | 69% (454) |
| 2022-23 | 760 | 43 | 17.7:1 | 62% (469) |
| 2020-21 | 776 | 50 | 15.5:1 | 73% (567) |
| 2017-18 | 807 | 58 | 13.9:1 | 81% (652) |
| 2015-16 | 784 | 54 | 14.5:1 | 83% (647) |
| 2010-11 | 763 | 52 | 14.7:1 | 93% (707) |
| 2000-01 | 749 | 39 | 19.2:1 | 70% (522) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in FORT MYERS, Florida, (ZIP code 33916). Federal data show 661 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Across its 116 schools, LEE enrolls 102,524 students. COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 49 are Hispanic, the largest group. Smaller groups are 37% Black, 10% White, and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Lee County is roughly 25% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 61%.
The school's 45 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.7:1. Elementary schools in Florida have an average ratio of 17.5:1. At COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 67% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Lee County report 48%.
On the allk12 Grade, COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at F, ahead of 1% of Florida public elementary schools.
COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 47.7%. The school's actual rate is 30.4%, 17.4 points lower.
The county, Lee County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $76,107 a year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Lee County has 123 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to CITY OF PALMS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away. COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency of 30.4% compares with 39.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
For locale, NCES codes COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as City: Small.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 15% drop, from 776 to 661.
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Lee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
817,666
Census ACS
Median income
$76,107
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
102,524 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LEE
- GATEWAY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 3,192 students
- LEHIGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,550 students
- GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,343 students
- IDA S. BAKER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,191 students
- EAST LEE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,129 students
- CAPE CORAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,008 students
Other schools in FORT MYERS
- GATEWAY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 3,192 students
- GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,343 students
- RIVERDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,916 students
- FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,835 students
- DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,734 students
- SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,693 students
Other Colonial Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Colonial Elementary. COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Colonial Elementary SchoolPlymouth Meeting, PA · 857 students
- Colonial ElementaryTroutville, VA · 439 students
Nearby schools
- CITY OF PALMS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 104
- LEE COUNTY VIRTUAL FRANCHISE0.8 mi · 796
- COUNTY WIDE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD PROGRAMS0.8 mi · 94
- PACE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS1.0 mi · 62
- FORT MYERS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 687
- RAY V. POTTORF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 736
Frequently asked questions
About COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 661 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.7:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 10% White, 49% Hispanic, 37% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of LEE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.