HARLEM HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL

HARLEM HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a very small elementary school in FORT MYERS, Florida, overseen by LEE. Current enrollment sits at 209 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 65% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within LEE, which oversees 116 schools and 102,524 students, HARLEM HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, HARLEM HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL records that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 15% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Lee County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, HARLEM HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Lee County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, HARLEM HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.8%; this one comes in at 24.3%, -23.6 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, Lee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,107 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 HARLEM HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARLEM HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 62.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area. HARLEM HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HARLEM HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL has climbed 310%, going from 51 students in 2018 to 209 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 92% to 76% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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