Public school / Primary
Veterans Park Academy for the Arts
Lehigh Acres, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120108003950
- District
- Lee
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Veterans Park Academy for the Arts is a public primary school in Lehigh Acres, Florida, run by Lee. It enrols 2,133 students — the 1444th largest of 4,334 public schools in Florida.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
2,133
Teachers
111.0
Students per teacher
19.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
36.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Lee
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Lehigh Senior High School2,476 students
- 2Veterans Park Academy for the Arts2,133 students
- 3Gateway High School1,981 students
- 4Ida S. Baker High School1,933 students
- 5South Fort Myers High School1,917 students
- 6Fort Myers High School1,902 students
- 7East Lee County High School1,896 students
- 8Cape Coral High School1,887 students
- Enrollment+247.4%
- Teachers+192.1%
- Students per teacher+13.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−37.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory