# JAMES STEPHENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/james-stephens-elementary-school-fort-myers

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120108007597`
- **School name**: JAMES STEPHENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: FORT MYERS, FL 33905
- **Address**: 1333 MARSH AVE
- **District**: LEE (LEAID `1201080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.65480, -81.82757
- **Phone**: (239)337-1333

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 730
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: C

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 57.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 43.1% (178 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.8% (26 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 35.7% (193 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 50.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 39.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 6.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 70.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.6% — 41 students
- **English Learners**: 26.6% — 144 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,261
- **Federal share**: $3,310
- **State + local share**: $11,951
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,926,191
- **Federal share**: 17.0%
- **State share**: 25.0%
- **Local share**: 58.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,235,380

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $51,161
- **Poverty rate**: 19.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.6%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,397
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 81.2 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.94 miles (FORT MYERS WELLFIELD PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LEE COUNTY UTILITIES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.74021 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING SERVICES** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.03%)
- **YOUNG PARENT EDUCATION PROGRAM** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.03%)
- **EDGEWOOD ACADEMY** — 1.1 mi away, 1.62% (this school: 2.03%)
- **TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.03%)
- **DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 1.19% (this school: 2.03%)

### ela proficiency
- **FRANKLIN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 31% (this school: 28.5%)
- **EDGEWOOD ACADEMY** — 1.1 mi away, 43.5% (this school: 28.5%)
- **TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 29.5% (this school: 28.5%)
- **DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 40% (this school: 28.5%)
- **ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 36.5% (this school: 28.5%)

### math proficiency
- **FRANKLIN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 40% (this school: 35%)
- **EDGEWOOD ACADEMY** — 1.1 mi away, 49% (this school: 35%)
- **TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 35%)
- **DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 41% (this school: 35%)
- **ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 54% (this school: 35%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/james-stephens-elementary-school-fort-myers
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/james-stephens-elementary-school-fort-myers/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/james-stephens-elementary-school-fort-myers/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/james-stephens-elementary-school-fort-myers/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/james-stephens-elementary-school-fort-myers/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/james-stephens-elementary-school-fort-myers/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/james-stephens-elementary-school-fort-myers/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/james-stephens-elementary-school-fort-myers/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/james-stephens-elementary-school-fort-myers/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/james-stephens-elementary-school-fort-myers/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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