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Lee County, Florida

Private schools in Lee County that take Step Up

55 of the 69 private schools in Lee County take a Step Up scholarship. Every one of them is below, with the phone number, straight out of Florida's official state directory.

54
Private school
48
Unique Abilities
3
PEP hybrid
14
No program listed
Private school (54) Step Up's "Private School Scholarship". The paperwork calls it FTC or FES-EO. About $8,000 a year toward tuition.
Unique Abilities (48) For a child with a diagnosed disability. The paperwork calls it FES-UA. Averages about $10,000, and it is a spending account.
PEP hybrid (3) Part-time programs that pair with teaching at home. PEP on the forms.
No program listed (14) The school is in the state directory but has not told the state it takes any of them. Worth a phone call anyway — it changes.

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Acton Academy Estero

10421 Pennsylvania Ave, Bonita Springs, FL, 34135
KG-12CoedNon-Denominational
815-693-8443 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Bishop Verot Catholic High School

5598 Sunrise Drive, Fort Myers, FL, 33919
09-12CoedCatholicAccredited: COGNIA
239-274-6703 Map Claim this listing

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FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Cape Coral Christian School Inc.

811 Santa Barbara Blvd, Cape Coral, FL, 33991
KG-12CoedNon-DenominationalAccredited: CGACS
239-574-3707 Map Claim this listing
PEP hybrid

Classical Christian Academy Inc.

7101 Bayshore Road, North Fort Myers, FL, 33917
PK-12CoedNon-DenominationalAccredited: FCCPSACOGNIA
239-543-1532 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Crosspointe Academy Inc.

13241 Griffin Dr., Fort Myers, FL, 33913
PK-12CoedNon-DenominationalAccredited: FCCPSA
239-225-1502 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Evangelical Christian

8237 Beacon Boulevard S.E., Fort Myers, FL, 33907
PK-08CoedNon-DenominationalAccredited: FACCS
239-936-3319 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Evangelical Christian School

4501 Colonial Blvd., Fort Myers, FL, 33966
09-12CoedNon-DenominationalAccredited: FACCS
239-936-3319 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Good Shepherd Lutheran School

4770 Orange Grove Blvd., North Fort Myers, FL, 33903
PK-12CoedLutheranAccredited: FLGA-LCMS
813-447-6785 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTC

Grace Community School Of North Fort Myers

4735 Orange Grove Blvd, North Fort Myers, FL, 33903
PK-12CoedNon-Denominational
239-997-3727 Map Claim this listing
No scholarship program listed

Preschool At The Lamb

19691 Cypress View Drive, Fort Myers, FL, 33967
PK-KGCoedNon-Denominational
239-267-2694 Map Claim this listing
No scholarship program listed

Sacred Heart Of Jesus Private School

6151 Nalle Grade Road, North Fort Myers, FL, 33917
01-12CoedCatholic
239-218-7536 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Saint Michael Lutheran School

3595 Broadway, Fort Myers, FL, 33901
PK-08CoedLutheranAccredited: FLGA-LCMSCOGNIA
239-939-1218 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTCFES-UA

Sonshine Christian Academy

12925 Palm Beach Blvd., Ft Myers, FL, 33905
PK-12CoedNon-DenominationalAccredited: CGACS
239-694-8882 Map Claim this listing
FES-EOFTC

Southwest Florida Christian Academy

3750 Colonial Blvd., Fort Myers, FL, 33966
PK-12CoedBaptistAccredited: ACSICOGNIA
239-936-8865 Map Claim this listing
No scholarship program listed

Valor Christian Academy

19601 Ben Hill Griffin Pkwy, Fort Myers, FL, 33913
01-08BoysNon-DenominationalMilitary
317-614-5825 Map Claim this listing
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Counties near Lee

Charlotte13 Hendry5 Collier27

Plenty of families cross a county line for the right school — the scholarship follows the child, not the address.

Using Step Up in Lee County

Almost everyone calls this the Step Up scholarship. It is worth roughly $8,000 per child per year for private school, and since 2023 there has been no household income cap. 54 schools here take it. If the four different program names are confusing, here is the whole thing in one page.

Schools flagged PEP hybrid run part-time programs that pair with home instruction, which is how many homeschool families in Lee County use two or three days of formal classes alongside their own teaching.

Call the school before anything else. Ask two questions: do you currently take my scholarship program, and do you have a seat in my child's grade. Participation and capacity both change during the year.

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Cities covered in this listing

Alva, Bonita Springs, Cape Coral, Estero, Fort Myers, Ft Myers, Ft. Myers, Lehigh Acres, North Fort Myers

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Where this list comes from

Compiled from the Florida Department of Education's private school directory, which is built from schools' own annual survey responses under section 1002.42, Florida Statutes. The Department does not independently verify the data, and inclusion is not approval or accreditation — by the state or by us. Pulled August 2, 2026. Confirm directly with the school before making any decision. Run one of these schools? Claim your listing to add your own description.

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