CYPRESS LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL

CYPRESS LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a junior high of middle-of-the-pack scale in FORT MYERS, Florida, overseen by LEE, instructing 768 students in grades 6 through 8.

LEE comprises 116 schools with combined enrollment of 102,524 students; CYPRESS LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, CYPRESS LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 38% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, CYPRESS LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.1%; this one delivers 64.3%.

In the area at large, Lee County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,107, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Lee County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), CYPRESS LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CYPRESS LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CYPRESS LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 51.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. CYPRESS LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 849 (now 768). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 27% to 38% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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