DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL

DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the sizable senior highs in FORT MYERS, Florida, one of the schools within LEE, with 1,734 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL sits 68% bigger than that benchmark.

LEE runs 116 schools in total, collectively educating 102,524 students. DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL lists that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 30% Black, 8% White. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 57.4%; this one comes in at 32.5%, -24.9 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lee County put the typical household earns roughly $76,107 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Lee County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), of which DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

FRANKLIN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL has contracted 10%, going from 1,917 students in 2018 to 1,734 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 47% to 59% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

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