Schools · Fort Myers
Fort Myers, FL schools
Fort Myers’s public schools score below Florida’s averages: 50% of students are proficient in reading against 52% statewide, and 88% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.3%. Kids attend one of 10 elementary schools through grade 5, then Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle School or Fort Myers Middle School and Fort Myers High School or Dunbar High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C
Fort Myers’s School Grade: C
The public schools Fort Myers’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 71% of Florida’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
C+Test scoresC-Graduation
Florida school districts we grade (73)Better than 29%
Lower resultsHigher results
Florida towns with similar household incomes (451)Better than 22%
High confidence. Built on 53,429 tested students and a graduating class of 6,922; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Florida’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Florida only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Florida with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Fort Myers kids go to school
Grades 6–8
BPaul Laurence Dunbar Middle School or DFort Myers Middle School
Depends on your address Lee County School DistrictGrades 9–12
BFort Myers High School or C-Dunbar High School
Depends on your address Lee County School DistrictBased on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Below the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–12, Lee County)50%
State average 52%
Math (grades PK–12, Lee County)47%
State average 47.9%
Graduation · class of 2020
88% graduate on time
Graduation rate
88%
FL: 90.3%
Graduating class
6,922
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #493 of 631 FL towns →
Districts
The district serving Fort Myers
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 38 schools in Fort Myers
Showing 1–30 of 38 schools
Treeline Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 1,057 students
BPublicAllen Park Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 926 students
B-PublicRay V. Pottorf Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 736 students
B-PublicJames Stephens Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 730 students
DPublicTanglewood Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 687 students
A-PublicOrangewood Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 679 students
B-PublicColonial Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 661 students
CPublicEdgewood AcademyElementary · Grades PK–5 · 598 students
CPublicFranklin Park Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 505 students
DPublicEdison Park Creative and Expressive Arts SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 440 students
B+PublicLee County Virtual Instruction Program (District Provided)Elementary · Grades K–5
PublicSt. Francis Xavier SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 602 students
PrivateSt. Michael Lutheran SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 513 students
PrivateFt. Myers Christian SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 255 students
PrivateApostolic Revival Center Christian SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 30 students
PrivatePaul Laurence Dunbar Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 999 students
BPublicFort Myers Middle SchoolMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 687 students
DPublicFort Myers High SchoolHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,835 students
BPublicDunbar High SchoolHigh · Grades 9–12 · 1,734 students
C-PublicCoronado High SchoolHigh · Grades 7–12 · 294 students
D-CharterCity of Palms Charter High SchoolHigh · Grades 9–12 · 104 students
D-CharterSuccess AcademyHigh · Grades 6–12 · 84 students
D-PublicPace School for GirlsHigh · Grades 6–12 · 62 students
D-PublicYoung Parent Education ProgramHigh · Grades 6–12 · 48 students
DPublicSouthwest Florida Juvenile Detention CenterHigh · Grades 5–12 · 41 students
D-PublicSW FL Addiction Services-the Vince Smith CenterHigh · Grades 6–12 · 6 students
PublicLee County JailHigh · Grades 7–12 · 4 students
PublicFort Myers Technical CollegeHigh · Grades 9–12
PublicBishop Verot Catholic High SchoolHigh · Grades 8–12 · 895 students
PrivateHibernian Private SchoolHigh · Grades 7–12 · 23 students
PrivateSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.