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Enrollment
770
Elementary
DISTRICT 805 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEE·NCES 120108005603
INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS
6851 LANCER AVE, FORT MYERS, FL 33912 · (239) 768-9375 · Lee County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL770 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% of Florida public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
423 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 52 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 77 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 72 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 95 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 81 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (81).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
32.0%
FL avg 56.7% . -1.9pp since 2023
Math
29.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 29.8% |
| 2023-24 | 33.8% | 25.4% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
32.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS
INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS's state test result (32.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS this school | 770 | 54.9% | 32.5% |
| RAY V. POTTORF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 736 | 54.9% | 46.8% |
| CORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GIBSONTON | 696 | 57.6% | 38.5% |
| SUMMERFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RIVERVIEW | 901 | 52.4% | 47.3% |
| DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY APOPKA | 674 | 55.6% | 53.2% |
| MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRANDON | 687 | 58.8% | 45.8% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Lee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.5% | #2,030 of 2,136 | #53 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.8% | #2,108 of 2,149 ▲ 11 | #57 of 58 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #2,021 of 2,149 ▼ 126 | #52 of 58 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 770 | #536 of 2,267 | #34 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.7:1 | #1,925 of 2,077 | #46 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.0% | #358 of 2,108 | #2 of 58 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.9% | #1,096 of 2,188 | #30 of 59 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.2% | #444 of 1,374 | #4 of 24 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
770
-55 (-7%) vs 2020
-33% since 2010-11, when it was 1,148
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
was 24.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 770 | 39 | 19.7:1 | 55% (423) |
| 2023-24 | 845 | 35 | 24.1:1 | 68% (578) |
| 2022-23 | 842 | 41 | 20.5:1 | 47% (399) |
| 2020-21 | 825 | 34 | 24.3:1 | 73% (606) |
| 2017-18 | 977 | 69 | 14.2:1 | 52% (507) |
| 2015-16 | 1,267 | 70 | 18.1:1 | 59% (746) |
| 2010-11 | 1,148 | 66 | 17.4:1 | 49% (559) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS.
About INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS
INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS is a medium-sized elementary school in FORT MYERS, Florida, administered by LEE. A federal count lists 770 students at the school, in pre-K through 8. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Florida) has about 604 students.
INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS is one of 116 schools in LEE, which enrolls 102,524 students in total.
INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 45%. Other students are 26% Black, 21% White, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. By comparison, Lee County residents are about 25% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 68%, meaning two students picked at random have a 68% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at the school number 39 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 19.7:1. That is higher than the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The lunch program counts 55% of students at INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 53.6% for INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 32.5%. The 21.2-point gap ranks in the bottom 10% of Florida schools.
Within Lee County, the median household income is $76,107, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. In all, Lee County has 123 public schools and roughly 102,524 students.
The shortest distance from INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS comes in 6th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS holds a charter, making it a public charter school.
INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS's enrollment declined from 825 in 2020-21 to 770 in 2024-25. Students per teacher fell from 24.3 in 2020-21 to 19.7 in 2024-25.
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Lee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
817,666
Census ACS
Median income
$76,107
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
102,524 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LEE
- GATEWAY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 3,192 students
- LEHIGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,550 students
- GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,343 students
- IDA S. BAKER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,191 students
- EAST LEE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,129 students
- CAPE CORAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,008 students
Other schools in FORT MYERS
- GATEWAY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 3,192 students
- GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,343 students
- RIVERDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,916 students
- FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,835 students
- DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,734 students
- SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,693 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,693
- LEE COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMIES2.3 mi · 230
- VILLAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 784
- FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL2.9 mi · 411
- ISLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL2.9 mi · 296
- RAYMA C. PAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 697
Frequently asked questions
About INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERSHow large is INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS?
INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS enrolls approximately 770 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS serve?
INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many teachers does INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS have?
INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.7:1.
What is the student diversity at INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS?
Student demographics at INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS are roughly 21% White, 45% Hispanic, 26% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS in?
INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS is part of LEE.
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