TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in NORTH FORT MYERS, Florida, TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-tier primary school, part of LEE. It instructs 804 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

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

Looking at the student body, TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 30% White, 12% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Lee County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Lee County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.8%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Lee County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,107, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 15%: 948 students in 2018 compared to 804 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 51% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.