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NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL
NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL operates as a high-enrollment four-year high school in NORTH FORT MYERS, Florida, run under LEE. Current enrollment sits at 1,938 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 87% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.
LEE runs 116 schools in total, collectively educating 102,524 students. NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL shows that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 34% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Lee County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 33% 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 54.1%, a residual of -10.6 points.
In the broader community, 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 roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lee County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 50.7%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL has increased 3%, going from 1,876 students in 2018 to 1,938 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 54% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 in 2025.
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