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If you could change one rule at MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
691
Middle
DISTRICT 972 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEE·NCES 120108004107
MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL
425 CHIQUITA BLVD N, CAPE CORAL, FL 33993 · (239) 772-1848 · Lee County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL691 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 29% of Florida public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
21.3:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.9:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
337 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 156 | 23% |
| Grade 7 | 243 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 292 | 42% |
Student demographics
60%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
45.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
54.9%
FL avg 58.9% . -2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.4% | 54.9% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 57.0% |
% 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
47.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL
MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (47.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 691 | 48.8% | 47.8% |
| CONWAY MIDDLE ORLANDO | 735 | 51.6% | 44.5% |
| CORNER LAKE MIDDLE ORLANDO | 767 | 51.8% | 52.5% |
| PASCO MIDDLE SCHOOL DADE CITY | 819 | 51.4% | 38.6% |
| CENTENNIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL DADE CITY | 688 | 49.6% | 38.9% |
| CORKSCREW MIDDLE SCHOOL NAPLES | 1,013 | 50.6% | 61.7% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Lee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.8% | #356 of 560 | #10 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.9% | #306 of 560 ▼ 58 | #9 of 18 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.4% | #386 of 560 ▼ 15 | #12 of 18 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 691 | #381 of 584 | #17 of 18 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.3:1 | #433 of 547 | #14 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.6% | #264 of 553 | #9 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.8% | #320 of 565 | #9 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.2% | #128 of 379 | #3 of 8 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
691
-259 (-27%) vs 2020
-22% since 2010-11, when it was 887
Student : Teacher
21.3:1
was 19.0:1
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 | 691 | 32.5 | 21.3:1 | 49% (337) |
| 2023-24 | 964 | 45.5 | 21.2:1 | 54% (523) |
| 2022-23 | 1,001 | 50.8 | 19.7:1 | 53% (527) |
| 2020-21 | 950 | 50 | 19.0:1 | 52% (493) |
| 2017-18 | 866 | 52 | 16.6:1 | 52% (447) |
| 2015-16 | 901 | 57 | 15.8:1 | 56% (509) |
| 2010-11 | 887 | 56 | 15.8:1 | 82% (727) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL
Families in CAPE CORAL, Florida, are served by MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL, a mid-sized middle school. The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 691 students in 2024-25.
LEE has 102,524 students spread across 116 schools.
The student body at MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 54% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 33% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Among all residents of Lee County, the Hispanic share is about 25%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 60%.
MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL has 32.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 21.3:1. Middle schools in Florida have an average ratio of 19.6:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 49%. That is in line with the 48% average for public schools in Lee County.
MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 29% of Florida public middle schools.
Compared with Florida schools that have similar shares of low-income students, MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL's results are 8.9 points below predicted: 47.8% against 56.7%.
In Lee County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $76,107 a year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Counting MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL, Lee County has 123 public schools.
About 0.3 miles separate MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL from the closest public school, MARINER HIGH SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 6th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Federal data place MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 691, from 950 in 2020-21. The ratio was 19.0:1 in 2020-21 and 21.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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 CAPE CORAL
- IDA S. BAKER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,191 students
- CAPE CORAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,008 students
- MARINER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,865 students
- ISLAND COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,477 students
- GULF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,193 students
- MID CAPE GLOBAL ACADEMYElementary · 1,145 students
Other Mariner Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Mariner Middle. MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Mariner Middle SchoolWHITE BEAR LAKE, MN · 881 students
- Mariner Middle SchoolMilton, DE · 552 students
Nearby schools
- MARINER HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,865
- NORTH NICHOLAS HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 353
- HECTOR A. CAFFERATA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 606
- OASIS ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL-NORTH2.0 mi · 813
- MID CAPE GLOBAL ACADEMY2.1 mi · 1,145
- TRAFALGAR MIDDLE SCHOOL2.8 mi · 962
Frequently asked questions
About MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 691 students in grades 06-08.
Is MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 21.3:1 students per teacher at MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 33% White, 54% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
MARINER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LEE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.