ORANGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 4001 DELEON ST, in FORT MYERS, Florida, ORANGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized primary school that hosts 679 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under LEE.

LEE comprises 116 schools with combined enrollment of 102,524 students; ORANGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, ORANGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% Black, 15% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Lee County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ORANGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.9%, the actual is 38.4%, a residual of -13.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,107 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 ORANGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

ALLEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ORANGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ORANGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 17%: 578 students in 2018 compared to 679 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 38% to 46%. Class-load math has grew: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.