ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in FORT MYERS, Florida, operated by LEE, caters to 796 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 32% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

LEE runs 116 schools in total, collectively educating 102,524 students. ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%); the rest looks like 9% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Lee County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of -10.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Lee County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,107, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Lee County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 37.3%.

ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 848 (now 796). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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