CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL

CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL is a 9-12 campus of mid-sized scale in FORT MYERS, Florida, one of the schools within LEE, caters to 1,429 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL sits 38% bigger than that benchmark.

Within LEE, which oversees 116 schools and 102,524 students, CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 15% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL reports 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.4:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 35% of students at CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lee County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 63.8%; this one comes in at 40.9%, -22.9 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lee County put median household earnings sit near $76,107, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Lee County (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students).

Nearest neighbor: CYPRESS LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.1%.

CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL has shrank 16%, going from 1,703 students in 2018 to 1,429 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 51% to 40% over that span.

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