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What's the one class at SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
1,693
High
DISTRICT 990 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEE·NCES 120108003952
SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL
14020 PLANTATION RD, FORT MYERS, FL 33912 · (239) 561-0060 · Lee County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,693 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 0% of Florida public high 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
23.0:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.7:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
804 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 448 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 460 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 436 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 349 | 21% |
Student demographics
57%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
39.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.5pp since 2023
Math
22.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 22.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.5% | 9.0% |
% 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
30.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-27.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 57% 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 SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL
SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (30.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,693 | 47.5% | 30.4% |
| DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 1,734 | 47.5% | 32.5% |
| POINCIANA HIGH SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 2,573 | 50.3% | 46.5% |
| ROBERT MORGAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIAMI | 1,780 | 50.2% | 64.3% |
| NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL OAKLAND PARK | 1,717 | 46.1% | 45.5% |
| DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL DAVENPORT | 2,731 | 49.3% | 41.5% |
Matched among Florida high 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 SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Lee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #550 of 555 | #16 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #488 of 549 ▲ 55 | #9 of 17 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #507 of 559 ▼ 12 | #14 of 17 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,693 | #244 of 830 | #11 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.0:1 | #338 of 575 | #5 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.9% | #310 of 594 | #16 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.5% | #272 of 630 | #7 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.0% | #80 of 289 | #2 of 8 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,693
-54 (-3%) vs 2020
-1% since 2010-11, when it was 1,708
Student : Teacher
23.0:1
was 21.6:1
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 | 1,693 | 73.8 | 23.0:1 | 47% (804) |
| 2023-24 | 1,738 | 82.8 | 21.0:1 | 53% (914) |
| 2022-23 | 1,917 | 83.6 | 22.9:1 | 50% (957) |
| 2020-21 | 1,747 | 81 | 21.6:1 | 51% (883) |
| 2017-18 | 2,040 | 110 | 18.6:1 | 51% (1,050) |
| 2015-16 | 2,038 | 93 | 21.9:1 | 49% (1,005) |
| 2010-11 | 1,708 | 81 | 21.1:1 | 60% (1,023) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL.
About SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL
SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school in LEE, located in FORT MYERS, Florida. The school teaches grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,693 students. That is 64% larger than the average of about 1,035 students for high schools in Florida.
SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL is one of the 116 schools that make up LEE (102,524 students in total).
At SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL, 60% of students are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 23% Black and 14% White. For comparison, the population of Lee County is roughly 25% Hispanic. The diversity index for SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL is 57%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL reports a ratio of 23.0 students per teacher, from 73.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 23.5:1 average for high schools in Florida. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL, 47% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Lee County is close, at 48%.
Among Florida public high schools, SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL outscored 0%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL scores 27.0 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 30.4% actual versus 57.4% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Lee County show median household income comes to about $76,107, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. There are 123 public schools in the county, enrolling about 102,524, SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL among them.
Of the public schools around it, SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL is closest to INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS, about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 57.8% on proficiency, and SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL is below that at 30.4%.
The NCES locale for SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL 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.
A 3% decline took enrollment from 1,747 in 2020-21 to 1,693 in 2024-25. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (23.0:1) than in 2020-21 (21.6:1).
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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
- CYPRESS LAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,429 students
Nearby schools
- INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS0.4 mi · 770
- LEE COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMIES2.2 mi · 230
- VILLAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 784
- ISLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 296
- FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL2.7 mi · 411
- RAYMA C. PAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.2 mi · 697
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOLHow large is SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL?
SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,693 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL serve?
SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 23.0:1 students per teacher at SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 14% White, 60% Hispanic, 23% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL?
SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by LEE in Lee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.