The top reported proficiency rate is 67% in Science. The lowest is 63% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Cape Elementary School
Cape Elementary School sits on Vincennes Boulevard in Cape Coral, a sprawling, canal-laced residential city in Lee County. The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade and draws an enrollment that places it comfortably in the range of a mid-to-large elementary school for its grade band. The student body is roughly split between white and Hispanic students, with smaller shares of Black students and children identifying as two or more races. Close to half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, meaning the school serves a meaningfully mixed economic community. Data on English learner enrollment and special education rates were not available in the records we reviewed.
On Florida's FAST assessments, Cape Elementary lands in a range most parents would read as solid. Math proficiency runs consistently across third, fourth, and fifth grade, holding at the same rate at each tested level. Reading proficiency is somewhat lower in third grade, improves in fourth, and reaches its highest point in fifth. Fifth-grade science results, measured on the Florida Statewide Science Assessment, come in at roughly the same level as fifth-grade ELA. Taken together, the picture is one of steady, mid-to-upper performance rather than a school at either extreme. Because Lee County has only one district, the comparison framework did not produce a within-county ranking, so we cannot place these scores against neighboring schools in that way. A parent wanting a tighter competitive read would need to compare directly to Florida statewide averages, which the score data on this page supports.
Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible from this record to say whether performance has been rising, falling, or holding flat. A parent who wants to understand trajectory should ask the school directly.
On programs, no specific curriculum, enrichment, or extracurricular information was present in the data we reviewed. The school carries no magnet designation and operates as a standard district elementary. Title I status was not recorded. Parents interested in what intervention supports, gifted services, or after-school options the school offers would do well to ask the front office, since nothing in this record speaks to those questions.
The district context matters here. Lee County overhauled student assignment by moving from an open school-choice model to a proximity-based plan, phased in starting in the 2023-2024 school year. Under that system, a family's assigned school depends on where they live, and busing is only provided within defined proximity zones. Families moving to the Cape Coral area should verify directly with Lee County Schools which elementary school serves their specific address and what transportation they would qualify for. Separately, a voter-approved half-cent sales tax has funded capital projects and safety upgrades across the district, including weapons detection technology and new school construction, though the tax is set to expire in 2028 and its renewal is an open question.
The community around the school reflects Cape Coral's broader character: a car-dependent, heavily residential city built around a canal grid, with relatively limited walkable commercial development except in the southern South Cape area. Publicly reported accounts describe the city as one of Florida's fastest-growing, with heavy construction concentrated in northern sections and a buyer's market in housing as of early 2026. Home values in the zip code have pulled back noticeably from recent peaks, running below the Florida state benchmark, and rents have also eased slightly year over year. That shift makes the area somewhat more accessible to families than it was a year or two ago, though carrying costs relative to income remain a real consideration.
For a family weighing Cape Elementary, the core picture is a neighborhood public school with consistent, moderate-to-solid state assessment results, a mixed-income and racially diverse student population, and a district that has recently reset how school assignment and transportation work. The gaps in this record, trend data, program specifics, special education rates, and English learner services, are the places worth following up with the school before drawing firm conclusions.
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