26 public K-12 schools in Cape Coral from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Cape Coral has more public-school enrollment than 95% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cape Coral's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
Cape Coral's list includes 3 elementary, 7 middle, and 6 high-school campuses, plus 10 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
7 of 26 listed Cape Coral campuses are reported as charters, so district-run and charter records occupy substantial shares of the same city view. They may follow different governance, enrollment, and program structures even when their mailing city matches. The 36-point gap between Oasis Elementary Charter School-North and Caloosa Middle School should be read within that context, not as a single-system league table. Check charter status and district affiliation before comparing two nearby schools, and verify current admissions rules with the operator.
Cape Coral school enrollment ranges from 234 students (lowest) to 2,191 students (highest), a spread of 1,957 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Cape Coral's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
27% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Oasis Elementary Charter School-North | 58 |
| 2. | Oasis Charter Elementary School-South | 51 |
| 3. | Mid Cape Global Academy | 42 |
| 4. | Heritage Charter Academy of Cape Coral | 42 |
| 5. | Trafalgar Elementary School | 39 |
| 6. | Diplomat Elementary School | 36 |
| 7. | North Nicholas High School | 35 |
| 8. | Trafalgar Middle School | 32 |
| 9. | Oasis Charter Middle School | 32 |
| 10. | Cape Elementary School | 32 |
| 11. | Caloosa Elementary School | 31 |
| 12. | Skyline Elementary School | 30 |
| 13. | Pelican Elementary School | 30 |
| 14. | Gulf Elementary School | 29 |
| 15. | Gulf Middle School | 29 |
| 16. | Mariner Middle School | 29 |
| 17. | Hector a. Cafferata Jr Elementary School | 28 |
| 18. | Island Coast High School | 27 |
| 19. | Patriot Elementary School | 27 |
| 20. | Cape Coral High School | 26 |
| 21. | Challenger Middle School | 26 |
| 22. | Oasis Charter High School | 26 |
| 23. | Mariner High School | 25 |
| 24. | Diplomat Middle School | 25 |
| 25. | Ida S. Baker High School | 24 |
| 26. | Caloosa Middle School | 22 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Oasis Elementary Charter School-North has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Cape Coral schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Cape Coral has 26 public schools with a total enrollment of 26,970 students. 7 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.9:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
