J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a mid-sized primary school in NORTH FORT MYERS, Florida, J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 530 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by LEE.

Across the 116 schools in LEE (102,524 students total), J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 35% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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, J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.6%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of -6.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Lee County) records that median household earnings sit near $76,107, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Lee County (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students).

The closest other public school is NORTHERN PALMS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 1.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at J. COLIN ENGLISH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has increased 24%, going from 427 students in 2018 to 530 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 40% to 56% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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