Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
Hector A. Cafferata Jr Elementary School, Cape Coral, FL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 606
- Teachers (FTE)
- 34.0
- Students per teacher
- 17.8
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 2.7 lower than the district figure of 20.5. The Florida average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 388 Santa Barbara Blvd, Cape Coral, FL 33993
- Phone
- (239)458-7391
- District
- Lee County Public Schools
- County
- Lee County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 120108003947
School meals
- Free lunch
- 367
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 36760.6% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 367Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Lee County Public Schools
- Veterans Park Academy for the Arts 1,937 students
- Sunshine Elementary School 1,456 students
- North Fort Myers Academy for the Arts 1,353 students
- Bonita Springs Charter School 1,287 students
- Mirror Lakes Elementary School 1,237 students
- Lehigh Elementary School 1,207 students
- The Alva School 1,203 students
- Gulf Elementary School 1,193 students
- Tortuga Preserve Elementary School 1,172 students
- Mid Cape Global Academy 1,145 students
- Skyline Elementary School 1,141 students
- Harns Marsh Elementary School 1,103 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.