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What's one thing DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
1,097
Middle
DISTRICT 972 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEE·NCES 120108003417
DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL
1039 NE 16TH TER, CAPE CORAL, FL 33909 · (239) 574-5257 · Lee County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,097 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% of Florida public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
21.8:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.9:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
538 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 373 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 352 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 372 | 34% |
Student demographics
58%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
58.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.6pp since 2023
Math
53.7%
FL avg 58.9% . -2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.3% | 53.7% |
| 2023-24 | 56.7% | 56.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
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 DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL
DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (54.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,097 | 49.0% | 54.2% |
| CORKSCREW MIDDLE SCHOOL NAPLES | 1,013 | 50.6% | 61.7% |
| ST. CLOUD MIDDLE SCHOOL ST CLOUD | 1,213 | 44.1% | 60.6% |
| TOMLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL PLANT CITY | 1,340 | 54.0% | 44.0% |
| HARMONY MIDDLE SCHOOL ST CLOUD | 1,165 | 44.4% | 59.2% |
| PASCO MIDDLE SCHOOL DADE CITY | 819 | 51.4% | 38.6% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Lee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #267 of 560 | #7 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.7% | #326 of 560 ▼ 69 | #10 of 18 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #217 of 560 ▼ 36 | #7 of 18 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,097 | #97 of 584 | #3 of 18 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.8:1 | #464 of 547 | #16 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.9% | #292 of 553 | #10 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.0% | #312 of 565 | #8 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +32.0% | #14 of 137 | #1 of 9 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,097
+288 (+36%) vs 2020
+1% since 2000-01, when it was 1,089
Student : Teacher
21.8:1
was 18.8:1
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 | 1,097 | 50.3 | 21.8:1 | 49% (538) |
| 2023-24 | 934 | 42.1 | 22.2:1 | 52% (486) |
| 2022-23 | 912 | 46 | 19.8:1 | 50% (457) |
| 2020-21 | 809 | 43 | 18.8:1 | 46% (374) |
| 2017-18 | 831 | 48 | 17.3:1 | 51% (426) |
| 2015-16 | 846 | 44 | 19.2:1 | 50% (421) |
| 2010-11 | 841 | 49 | 17.2:1 | 59% (500) |
| 2000-01 | 1,089 | 54 | 20.2:1 | 41% (444) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL
DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle-grades school in CAPE CORAL, Florida. It serves 1,097 students in grades 6 through 8. The average among middle schools in Florida is roughly 794 students; this school is 38% larger than that.
LEE has a total of 116 schools and 102,524 students, DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment is 55% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 33% White, 8% Black, and 2% multiracial. In Lee County overall, about 25% of residents are Hispanic. DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL has a diversity index of 58%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
A ratio of 21.8:1 comes from the school's 50.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida is lower than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 49% of students at DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Lee County, the average is about the same, 48%.
Measured against Florida public middle schools, DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL is 2.4 points below its prediction. Actual: 54.2%. Predicted: 56.6%.
Census Bureau estimates for Lee County show that median household income is about $76,107, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Lee County, which together enroll about 102,524 students.
The shortest distance from DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.1 miles, to DIPLOMAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The five-mile area around DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 51.9%, lower than DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL's 54.2%.
DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
Federal counts put enrollment at 809 in 2020-21 and 1,097 in 2024-25, a 36% gain. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 18.8:1 in 2020-21 to 21.8:1 in 2024-25.
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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 CAPE CORAL
- IDA S. BAKER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,191 students
- CAPE CORAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,008 students
- MARINER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,865 students
- ISLAND COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,477 students
- GULF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,193 students
- MID CAPE GLOBAL ACADEMYElementary · 1,145 students
Nearby schools
- DIPLOMAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,066
- DR CARRIE D ROBINSON LITTLETON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 640
- HECTOR A. CAFFERATA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 606
- TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 804
- NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL2.7 mi · 1,938
- CALOOSA MIDDLE SCHOOL2.9 mi · 1,018
Frequently asked questions
About DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,097 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 21.8:1 students per teacher at DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 33% White, 55% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by LEE in Lee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.