LEMUEL TEAL MIDDLE SCHOOL

LEMUEL TEAL MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier junior high in LEHIGH ACRES, Florida, operated by LEE. Current enrollment sits at 1,008 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 27% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

Across the 116 schools in LEE (102,524 students total), LEMUEL TEAL MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, LEMUEL TEAL MIDDLE SCHOOL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 63%. Other groups include 23% Black, 10% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Lee County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, LEMUEL TEAL MIDDLE SCHOOL records 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 61% of students at LEMUEL TEAL MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Lee County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LEMUEL TEAL MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.4%; this one comes in at 33.4%, -17.1 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lee County put median household income runs about $76,107, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lee County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), of which LEMUEL TEAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: VETERANS PARK ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LEMUEL TEAL MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

LEMUEL TEAL MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

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