PELICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in CAPE CORAL, Florida, PELICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a sprawling primary school, one of the schools within LEE. It works with 963 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 59% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

Across the 116 schools in LEE (102,524 students total), PELICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, PELICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 44% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Lee County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PELICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.2%; this one delivers 55.6%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Lee County) records that median household earnings sit near $76,107, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Lee County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), PELICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CAPE CORAL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PELICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PELICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PELICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 940 students in 2018 to 963 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 58% to 44% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for PELICAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.