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Enrollment
814
Elementary
DISTRICT 805 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEE·NCES 120108001758
HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1601 SKYLINE DR, NORTH FORT MYERS, FL 33903 · (239) 995-3600 · Lee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL814 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
499 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 121 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 142 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 127 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 148 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 126 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 132 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (121) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (132).
Student demographics
62%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
45.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.2pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.6% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.5% | 51.7% |
% 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
47.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (47.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 814 | 61.3% | 47.2% |
| DELTONA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DELTONA | 731 | 63.3% | 55.0% |
| BAILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DOVER | 719 | 63.1% | 39.5% |
| R. BRUCE WAGNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 899 | 65.0% | 55.3% |
| WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ARCADIA | 622 | 62.5% | 47.7% |
| DR CARRIE D ROBINSON LITTLETON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH FORT MYERS | 640 | 58.3% | 50.7% |
Matched among Florida elementary 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 HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Lee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.2% | #1,476 of 2,136 | #31 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,564 of 2,149 ▼ 252 | #33 of 58 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.6% | #1,517 of 2,149 ▼ 49 | #29 of 58 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 814 | #437 of 2,267 | #28 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #1,817 of 2,077 | #30 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.4% | #728 of 2,108 | #12 of 58 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.3% | #857 of 2,188 | #17 of 59 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.8% | #1,214 of 1,374 | #19 of 24 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
814
+115 (+16%) vs 2020
-10% since 2000-01, when it was 909
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 17.1:1
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 | 814 | 43.2 | 18.8:1 | 61% (499) |
| 2023-24 | 788 | 34.5 | 22.8:1 | 65% (512) |
| 2022-23 | 786 | 41 | 19.2:1 | 63% (499) |
| 2020-21 | 699 | 41 | 17.1:1 | 57% (397) |
| 2017-18 | 846 | 57 | 14.8:1 | 57% (486) |
| 2015-16 | 848 | 52 | 16.3:1 | 56% (479) |
| 2010-11 | 879 | 60 | 14.7:1 | 71% (628) |
| 2000-01 | 909 | 47 | 19.3:1 | 44% (399) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public elementary school run by LEE in NORTH FORT MYERS, Florida. The school reports 814 students in pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Florida is about 604 students.
Across its 116 schools, LEE enrolls 102,524 students. HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The most common group at HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic students, at 49%. Other groups make up 36% White, 10% Black, and 4% multiracial. Lee County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The school's diversity index is 62%, meaning two students picked at random have a 62% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school employs the equivalent of 43.2 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 18.8:1. That is 1.4 students per teacher above the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 61%. Public schools in Lee County average 48%.
HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded C by allk12, scoring above 28% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 50.5%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 47.2%.
Census estimates describe Lee County this way: the median household income is $76,107, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Lee County has 122 other public schools.
Of nearby public schools, NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL is the closest, at about 1.1 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Its average proficiency rate of 47.2% is below the 48.5% average for nearby schools.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has grown by 115 students since 2020-21, to 814. The school's ratio rose from 17.1:1 to 18.8:1 between 2020-21 and 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 NORTH FORT MYERS
- NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,938 students
- NORTH FORT MYERS ACADEMY FOR THE ARTSElementary · 1,353 students
- TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 804 students
- DR CARRIE D ROBINSON LITTLETON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 640 students
- J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 530 students
- NORTHERN PALMS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 92 students
Nearby schools
- NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,938
- NORTHERN PALMS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 92
- TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 804
- LEE COUNTY JAIL2.1 mi · 4
- EDISON PARK CREATIVE AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS SCHOOL2.1 mi · 440
- FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL2.2 mi · 1,835
Frequently asked questions
About HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 814 students in grades PK-05.
Is HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 36% White, 49% Hispanic, 10% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LEE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.