Independent school district in Florida · Census county area: Lee.
Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.
Dr. Denise Carlin is the current state-published superintendent for Lee County. The superintendent leads district administration; the school board governs the district. They are different public roles.
FLDOE marks this district with the page's appointed-superintendent asterisk.
FLDOE's statewide page does not name this district's current board members or publish their seats, terms, vacancies, meetings, votes, election records, boundaries, contracts, or vendors. Election.org leaves those fields open instead of confusing an administrator with the elected governing body.
Source: Florida Department of Education public superintendent directory, checked 2026-08-30. Election.org joined all 67 county districts to NCES by exact FL-01–FL-67 agency ID. Public work contacts are reproduced as published; no private contact data is inferred. A dated directory row is not proof of continued service after this check.
Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.
| Year | Enrollment | Spending / pupil | Total revenue | Total expenditure | Debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 94,410 | $9,657 | $1,083,759,000 | $1,047,338,000 | $400,238,000 |
| 2020 | 95,613 | $9,527 | $1,161,742,000 | $1,103,854,000 | $527,737,000 |
| 2021 | 94,927 | $9,815 | $1,185,267,000 | $1,151,329,000 | $458,607,000 |
| 2022 | 97,264 | $10,788 | $1,354,517,000 | $1,223,254,000 | $401,742,000 |
| 2023 | 99,354 | $12,108 | $1,546,967,000 | $1,389,963,000 | $492,978,000 |
| 2024 | 100,064 | $12,384 | $1,727,269,000 | $1,567,519,000 | $439,195,000 |
Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.
119 operating schools in the final 2024–25 federal directory
Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.
Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union
The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.
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Estimated enrollment99,3542023
