TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school in FORT MYERS, Florida, run under LEE. The school educates 516 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

On demographics, TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%); the rest comes out to 6% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 58% of students at TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Lee County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lee County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,107 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lee County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 37.9%.

TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 10%, going from 574 students in 2018 to 516 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 86% to 91%. Class-load math has widened: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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