15 public K-12 schools in Lehigh Acres 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, Lehigh Acres has more public-school enrollment than 93% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lehigh Acres'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.
7 of Lehigh Acres's 15 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
The 23-point gap between Harns Marsh Middle School and East Lee County High School shows the range hidden by Lehigh Acres's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.
Lehigh Acres school enrollment ranges from 274 students (lowest) to 2,550 students (highest), a spread of 2,276 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
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Lehigh Acres'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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
13% 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. | Harns Marsh Middle School | 40 |
| 2. | Varsity Lakes Middle School | 35 |
| 3. | Donna J. Beasley Technical Academy | 35 |
| 4. | Palm Acres Charter High School | 35 |
| 5. | Sunshine Elementary School | 30 |
| 6. | Veterans Park Academy for the Arts | 29 |
| 7. | Tortuga Preserve Elementary School | 29 |
| 8. | Gateway High School | 28 |
| 9. | Lehigh Elementary School | 28 |
| 10. | Harns Marsh Elementary School | 27 |
| 11. | Mirror Lakes Elementary School | 24 |
| 12. | Lehigh Senior High School | 23 |
| 13. | Lehigh Acres Middle School | 22 |
| 14. | G. Weaver Hipps Elementary School | 19 |
| 15. | East Lee County High School | 17 |
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.
Harns Marsh Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lehigh Acres schools in this federal-data comparison at 40/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Lehigh Acres has 15 public schools with a total enrollment of 20,085 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 26.9:1.
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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.
