HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL

HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier junior high in LEHIGH ACRES, Florida, operated by LEE. Current enrollment sits at 905 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

LEE comprises 116 schools with combined enrollment of 102,524 students; HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 20% Black, 10% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lee County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.8%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of -6.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lee County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,107, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Lee County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HARNS MARSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL has fell 26%, going from 1,225 students in 2018 to 905 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 54% to 66% over that span.

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