ESTERO HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 21900 RIVER RANCH RD, in ESTERO, Florida, ESTERO HIGH SCHOOL is a substantial secondary school that hosts 1,571 students (grades 9 through 12), run under LEE. Enrollment runs roughly 52% larger than the state mean of about 1,035.

LEE comprises 116 schools with combined enrollment of 102,524 students; ESTERO HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, ESTERO HIGH SCHOOL reports that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 45% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Lee County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, ESTERO HIGH SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 68.3%; actual is 43.8%, a gap of -24.5 points.

Across the wider county, Lee County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,107, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lee County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), of which ESTERO HIGH SCHOOL is one.

THREE OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ESTERO HIGH SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 57.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ESTERO HIGH SCHOOL has fell 11%, going from 1,760 students in 2018 to 1,571 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 56% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 25.3:1 today.

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