# PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120108001128`
- **School name**: PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: FORT MYERS, FL 33966
- **Address**: 4750 WINKLER AVENUE EXT
- **District**: LEE (LEAID `1201080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 26.59969, -81.81621
- **Phone**: (239)334-1357

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 999
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 55
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 46.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.7% (206 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.4% (163 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 26
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 32.0%
- **Black/African American**: 5.3%
- **Asian**: 33.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 27.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 2.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 53.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.1% — 150 students
- **English Learners**: 11.2% — 111 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 67 students
- **Autism**: 22 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,744
- **Federal share**: $1,144
- **State + local share**: $8,601
### 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**: $76,451
- **Poverty rate**: 4.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 45.7%
- **Unemployment**: 6.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,575
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 84.9 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.20 miles (EASTWOOD GOLF COURSE)

### 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**: 3.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **TREELINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.01%)
- **COUNTY WIDE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD PROGRAMS** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.01%)
- **LEE COUNTY VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 2.3 mi away, 1.36% (this school: 2.01%)
- **SOUTHWEST FLORIDA JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.01%)
- **DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 1.19% (this school: 2.01%)

### ela proficiency
- **LEE COUNTY VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 2.3 mi away, 61% (this school: 55%)
- **FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 64% (this school: 55%)
- **EDISON PARK CREATIVE AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 64.5% (this school: 55%)
- **TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 63% (this school: 55%)
- **GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.8 mi away, 62% (this school: 55%)

### math proficiency
- **VILLAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 63% (this school: 59%)
- **EDISON PARK CREATIVE AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 59%)
- **TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 77% (this school: 59%)
- **GATEWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 62% (this school: 59%)
- **FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.4 mi away, 93% (this school: 59%)

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