# SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sunshine-elementary-school-lehigh-acres/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sunshine-elementary-school-lehigh-acres

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120108002472`
- **School name**: SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: LEHIGH ACRES, FL 33971
- **Address**: 601 SARA AVE N
- **District**: LEE (LEAID `1201080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.61867, -81.68955
- **Phone**: (239)369-5836

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,456
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 74
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 68.5%

## 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 31.8% (328 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.8% (231 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 59.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 26.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.3% — 114 students
- **English Learners**: 24.9% — 343 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 53 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,667
- **Federal share**: $1,553
- **State + local share**: $8,114
### 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**: $73,770
- **Poverty rate**: 6.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.6%
- **Unemployment**: 0.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,483
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 78.6 miles (FLORIDA STEEL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.53 miles (EASTWOOD GOLF COURSE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: FLORIDA GOVERNMENTAL UTILITY AUTHORITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.74021 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HARNS MARSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 0.57% (this school: 0.58%)
- **LEHIGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 0.48% (this school: 0.58%)
- **VARSITY LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 0.48% (this school: 0.58%)
- **GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 0.17% (this school: 0.58%)
- **VETERANS PARK ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS** — 3.7 mi away, 0.57% (this school: 0.58%)

### ela proficiency
- **HARNS MARSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 39% (this school: 30.5%)
- **HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 48% (this school: 30.5%)
- **TORTUGA PRESERVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 39% (this school: 30.5%)
- **LEHIGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 30.5%)
- **VARSITY LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 42% (this school: 30.5%)

### math proficiency
- **HARNS MARSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 44% (this school: 38%)
- **HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 60% (this school: 38%)
- **VARSITY LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 51% (this school: 38%)
- **G. WEAVER HIPPS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 45% (this school: 38%)
- **GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 39% (this school: 38%)

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