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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
530
Elementary
DISTRICT 805 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEE·NCES 120108001136
J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
120 PINE ISLAND RD, NORTH FORT MYERS, FL 33903 · (239) 995-2258 · Lee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL530 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of Florida public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
18.3:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
366 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 | 71 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
56%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
37.8%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.2pp since 2023
Math
44.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.8% | 44.1% |
| 2023-24 | 37.6% | 41.5% |
% 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
39.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (39.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 530 | 69.1% | 39.7% |
| STANLEY SWITLIK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MARATHON | 602 | 66.6% | 49.7% |
| ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLANT CITY | 522 | 69.9% | 52.0% |
| DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DELTONA | 653 | 68.0% | 47.1% |
| NOCATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NOCATEE | 475 | 70.3% | 44.4% |
| PIERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PIERSON | 534 | 73.4% | 48.0% |
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 J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Lee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #1,821 of 2,136 | #43 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #1,784 of 2,149 ▼ 18 | #42 of 58 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #1,861 of 2,149 ▼ 111 | #42 of 58 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 530 | #1,300 of 2,267 | #49 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #1,742 of 2,077 | #28 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.3% | #1,068 of 2,108 | #30 of 58 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.1% | #495 of 2,188 | #7 of 59 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +24.1% | #151 of 621 | #7 of 31 |
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
530
+172 (+48%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 687
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 530 | 29 | 18.3:1 | 69% (366) |
| 2023-24 | 540 | 26 | 20.8:1 | 75% (406) |
| 2022-23 | 438 | 24.8 | 17.7:1 | 71% (312) |
| 2020-21 | 358 | 24 | 14.9:1 | 75% (269) |
| 2017-18 | 427 | 35 | 12.2:1 | 81% (344) |
| 2015-16 | 494 | 35 | 14.1:1 | 79% (389) |
| 2010-11 | 332 | 23 | 14.4:1 | 92% (304) |
| 2000-01 | 764 | 42 | 18.2:1 | 83% (634) |
| 1990-91 | 687 | 37 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in NORTH FORT MYERS, Florida, one of the schools in LEE. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 530 students.
Federal data list 116 schools in LEE, with 102,524 students enrolled.
At J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Hispanic students make up 56% of the student body. The next largest groups are 35% White, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 31 points above the 25% share among Lee County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 56% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 29 full-time equivalents, or about 18.3 students per teacher. On average, elementary schools in Florida have 17.5:1, compared with 18.3:1 here. About 69% of students, or 366, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Lee County is 48%.
J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded D by allk12, scoring above 14% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 6.9 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (39.7% versus 46.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Florida.
Lee County has these Census figures: the median household income is $76,107, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. In all, Lee County has 123 public schools and roughly 102,524 students.
The nearest public school is NORTHERN PALMS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, at about 1.5 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 47.6%, higher than J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 39.7%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment records show 358 in 2020-21 and 530 in 2024-25. Because schools sometimes add or drop grades, the two numbers may not be directly comparable. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 18.3:1, from 14.9:1.
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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
- HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 814 students
- TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 804 students
- DR CARRIE D ROBINSON LITTLETON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 640 students
- NORTHERN PALMS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 92 students
Nearby schools
- NORTHERN PALMS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 92
- NORTH FORT MYERS ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS1.8 mi · 1,353
- DR CARRIE D ROBINSON LITTLETON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 640
- NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 1,938
- TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 804
- HANCOCK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 814
Frequently asked questions
About J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 530 students in grades PK-05.
Is J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.3:1.
What is the student diversity at J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 35% White, 56% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by LEE in Lee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.