FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL

FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL operates as a minimally staffed high school in FT MYERS, Florida, run under LEE. Current enrollment sits at 411 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 60% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.

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

On demographics, FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 35% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the resource side, FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL reports 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 37.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 75.1%; actual is 92.3%, +17.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lee County) logs that median household earnings sit near $76,107, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Lee County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LEE COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMIES, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.

The school occupies a residential site. FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 396 (now 411). The White share of enrollment contracted from 55% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 36.0:1 in 2018 to 37.4:1 today.

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