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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
687
Elementary
DISTRICT 805 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEE·NCES 120108001153
TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1620 MANCHESTER BLVD, FORT MYERS, FL 33919 · (239) 936-0891 · Lee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL687 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
17.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
275 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 | 13 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 135 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 125 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (101) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (125).
Student demographics
63%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
58.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.6pp since 2023
Math
70.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 70.5% |
| 2023-24 | 53.4% | 62.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
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 TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (60.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 687 | 40.0% | 60.6% |
| MANISCALCO K-8 SCHOOL LUTZ | 673 | 38.8% | 71.6% |
| LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY LOXAHATCHEE | 695 | 43.0% | 59.2% |
| BUCKHORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VALRICO | 667 | 38.2% | 65.0% |
| CAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAPE CORAL | 798 | 45.1% | 65.2% |
| WALDEN LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLANT CITY | 809 | 39.4% | 65.6% |
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 TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Lee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.6% | #840 of 2,136 | #13 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.5% | #631 of 2,149 ▲ 202 | #9 of 58 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #922 of 2,149 ▲ 76 | #11 of 58 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 687 | #754 of 2,267 | #39 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #1,529 of 2,077 | #21 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.7% | #712 of 2,108 | #11 of 58 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.0% | #1,580 of 2,188 | #46 of 59 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.4% | #1,069 of 1,374 | #16 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
687
-10 (-1%) vs 2020
+12% since 1990-91, when it was 615
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 17.9:1
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 | 687 | 39.6 | 17.4:1 | 40% (275) |
| 2023-24 | 749 | 34.6 | 21.6:1 | 45% (334) |
| 2022-23 | 724 | 41 | 17.7:1 | 44% (318) |
| 2020-21 | 697 | 39 | 17.9:1 | 38% (265) |
| 2017-18 | 742 | 52 | 14.3:1 | 41% (302) |
| 2015-16 | 754 | 52 | 14.5:1 | 48% (361) |
| 2010-11 | 707 | 44 | 16.1:1 | 58% (408) |
| 2000-01 | 585 | 32 | 18.3:1 | 62% (360) |
| 1990-91 | 615 | 36 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in Florida, with an address in FORT MYERS. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 687 students in pre-K through 5.
LEE has 116 schools and 102,524 students, and TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The largest is White students, at 45%. The next largest groups are 40% Hispanic, 8% Black, and 6% multiracial. In Lee County overall, about 67% of residents are White. The school's diversity index is 63%, meaning two students picked at random have a 63% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school has about 17.4 students per teacher and 39.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is close to the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 40%.
TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 51% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in Florida is predicted to score 61.1%. TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 60.6%, within a point of that line.
TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Lee County, where the median household income is $76,107, roughly 31% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in the county.
The next-closest public school is VILLAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 1.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is ahead of the 59.6% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 4.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (697) to 2024-25 (687).
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
Other Tanglewood Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Tanglewood Elementary. TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 6.
- Tanglewood Elementary SchoolBaton Rouge, LA · 622 students
- Tanglewood ElemDerby, KS · 607 students
- Tanglewood Elementary SchoolFORT WORTH, TX · 575 students
- TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSOUTH GLENS FALLS, NY · 425 students
- Tanglewood ElementaryLumberton, NC · 355 students
Nearby schools
- VILLAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 784
- LEE COUNTY ACCELERATION ACADEMIES1.4 mi · 230
- ORANGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 679
- FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 411
- COUNTY WIDE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD PROGRAMS2.2 mi · 94
- LEE COUNTY VIRTUAL FRANCHISE2.2 mi · 796
Frequently asked questions
About TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 687 students in grades PK-05.
Is TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.4:1.
What is the student diversity at TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 45% White, 40% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by LEE in Lee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.