PATRIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in CAPE CORAL, Florida, PATRIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a high-enrollment elementary school, overseen by LEE. It caters to 954 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so PATRIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 58% larger than that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, PATRIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 34% White, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PATRIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PATRIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lee County shows 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), PATRIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CHALLENGER MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PATRIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.0%.

PATRIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. PATRIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 32% since 2018, when it stood at 723 (now 954). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 37% to 54%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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