Ibis Landing - Schools, Healthcare and Drive Times

Updated September 2026 · Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, Domain Realty

What does this page prove about schools, healthcare and drive times at Ibis Landing?

Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar of Domain Realty represent sellers and buyers at Ibis Landing Golf & Country Club in Lehigh Acres, Lee County, Florida. This page answers three questions from primary records: how the School District of Lee County actually assigns a student at this address, which hospitals and urgent care genuinely serve it, and how far everything is by a measured route rather than a straight line. It is the schools and logistics companion to our complete Ibis Landing community guide.

Sellers first. Free valuation: https://mcgreevyandcomisar.com/home-valuation, or Call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. As the leaders of Domain Realty Group our team has closed over $2.5 billion in real estate, and we are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008. Buying? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873, and read how we represent buyers in Lehigh Acres. Every distance below names its origin and its routing method, and every school fact is cited to the District’s own published plan.

What this page establishes, at a glance

• Lee County does not assign one school to one address. It assigns a proximity zone and a family ranks schools inside it, which is why a single-school answer from any other site is wrong by construction.
• The zone result for this address, read from the District’s own locator: Elementary Proximity Zone L with six schools to rank, Middle Proximity Zone HH with three, and High School East Zone, Sub-zone 3.
• The deadlines that decide the outcome. Open enrollment for 2026-2027 ran 20 January to 27 February 2026; advanced programme applications go directly to the school by 2 February; cross-zone and hardship waivers close 31 July (Student Enrollment Plan 2026-2027, Board approved 1 December 2025).
• Healthcare by measured road distance, with the two systems that operate here named, what each actually runs, and what is under construction with dates.
• Drive times measured on named routes, including 9.3 road miles to Southwest Florida International Airport, which is the standout number for this community.
• Public transport is not a commuting option here, stated plainly rather than implied by omission.

Why McGreevy and Comisar Are the Best Realtor for Ibis Landing

If you are searching for the best realtor for Ibis Landing, whether you are ready to sell your Ibis Landing home or buy your next one, McGreevy and Comisar is the team that delivers. We lead Domain Realty Group, the #1 real estate team in Southwest Florida since 2012, Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, with over $2.5 billion sold as a team and $900 million in personal sales between Jesse and Marc. School assignment and commute are the two questions that decide whether a relocating family writes the offer, and this page answers both from documents.

The Ibis Landing market over the last 12 months, pulled from the Southwest Florida MLS (Matrix) on 17 September 2026 and filtered to this development: 57 closed sales, spanning $150,000 to $515,000, with a community-wide median time to contract of 39 days. Those 57 sales are four different products and they do not share a median, so the figures are reported by product type in our complete Ibis Landing community guide rather than blended into one number. Seventeen homes were listed for sale here on the same date, at a median asking price of $399,000.

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Ready to talk about schools before you write the offer?

School assignment here is a ranking exercise inside a proximity zone, and the deadlines are hard. A buyer who understands that before making an offer has a real advantage over one who finds out in August. In the last 12 months we tracked 57 closed sales in this community, and we represented sellers and buyers across Lehigh Acres and the wider Lee County market. Selling instead? Start with a free home valuation at https://mcgreevyandcomisar.com/home-valuation, or Call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. Buying? Call Marc at (239) 287-5873, or read how we represent buyers in Lehigh Acres.

What schools serve Ibis Landing, and how does Lee County actually assign them?

The School District of Lee County assigns 20920 Copperhead Drive to Elementary Proximity Zone L, Middle Proximity Zone HH and High School East Zone Sub-zone 3, per the District’s own “Lee County 26-27” enrollment-zone locator queried 17 September 2026. Lee County runs choice-within-zone with a lottery, not one fixed school per address.

Lee County does not assign one school to one address, how the system works

This is the single most misunderstood fact about buying a home in Lee County, and every “schools in Lehigh Acres” list gets it wrong.

The governing document is the Student Enrollment Plan 2026-2027, The School District of Lee County, Board approved 1 December 2025, 21 pages, published by the District at its student enrollment page. Quoting that plan directly:

• “At the time the school choice application is entered, families are required to rank, in preference order all the available schools in their residential/choice zone. The District makes every attempt to accommodate parental preferences using the factors established in this policy.”
• “Students will only receive transportation for elementary schools within the residential choice proximity zone in which they reside. Families who require bus transportation will always be guaranteed an available seat at a school with capacity in their proximity zone.”
• “The lottery process is used in situations in which the number of applicants for a school exceeds the available seats.”
• “Students that reside P1 (within 2 miles of the school) will not be provided District transportation.”
• “The Student Enrollment Plan is subject to annual review, refinement, and Board approval.”

The lottery preference order at elementary and middle level runs: exceptional student education and special programs, then sibling preference, then Proximity 1, residence within two miles of the school, then sibling guarantee, then Proximity 2, the school nearest the residence within the school zone, and then the four categories established by Florida House Bill 7029.

So an assignment for this address is a zone plus a lottery outcome, valid for one plan year, and it can change when the Board re-approves the plan. No page, including this one, can tell you which school your child will attend.

The zone result for this address, from the District’s own locator

The District publishes an address lookup, its SchoolSite Locator application, titled “Lee County 26-27” and running on the district dataset for the 2026-27 year. Queried directly at latitude 26.5917286, longitude −81.6594767 on 17 September 2026, it returns:

That address is the club address for Ibis Landing Golf & Country Club, Lehigh Acres, Lee County, Florida, and the same zone result governs the residential streets around it. Those results were cross-checked against the Board-approved Student Enrollment Plan 2026-2027 school lists for the same zones. Where the two differ, the plan is the newer and controlling document, and the plan’s lists are used below.

To state the claim with its date, as it should be stated: as of the 2026-2027 Student Enrollment Plan, Board approved 1 December 2025, and the District’s “Lee County 26-27” enrollment-zone locator queried 17 September 2026, this address sits in Elementary Proximity Zone L, Middle Proximity Zone HH and High School East Zone Sub-zone 3. This is a zone, not a guaranteed school, and it is re-approved annually.

Elementary Proximity Zone L, the six schools a family ranks

Grades and points are Florida Department of Education school grades; enrolment and economic-disadvantage figures are from the Department’s October 2025 file. Road miles and free-flow minutes were computed on the OpenStreetMap road network using the OSRM public routing service, driving profile, fastest route, on 17 September 2026, from 26.5917286, −81.6594767, the geocode of 20920 Copperhead Drive, Lehigh Acres, confirmed as a Lee County address. Every minute figure is a no-traffic model estimate and a floor, not a typical trip.

Three things a family should take from that table. Green Meadow Elementary is a brand-new school: the District named it in a November 2025 public vote, and the temporary campus opened in August 2026 under Principal Ed Carter. From the District’s construction update of 30 July 2026: “Portable classrooms have been placed in the back behind Lehigh Senior High School and will hold over 400 students. The new campus is eagerly awaited and is expected to arrive in June of 2028.” The District’s new-construction tracker lists the permanent Green Meadows Elementary campus as in permitting with a 2 June 2028 date. It has no state grade and no state enrolment record because it did not exist in the 2025-26 reporting year.

Mirror Lakes Elementary is the only B among the graded Zone L schools, and it is also the second-farthest of the six. And every graded Zone L elementary is a Title I school with 100% economically disadvantaged enrolment in the state file. Publishing the grades without that second fact would be selective, so both appear together.

Middle Proximity Zone HH, the three schools a family ranks

Harns Marsh Middle School earned an A in 2026, up from a B, and it is about five miles away in Lehigh Acres, but it sits in Proximity Zone JJ, not HH, so it is not rankable from this address and carries no District transportation (Student Enrollment Plan 2026-2027, page 10; Florida Department of Education school grades file). This is precisely the school a city-level “schools in Lehigh Acres” list would wrongly attribute to a buyer at this address.

The District’s middle-school arts application programmes run at Bonita Springs Middle, Cypress Lake Middle, North Fort Myers Academy, Harns Marsh Middle, Oak Hammock Middle and Veterans Park Academy, and the plan states “Transportation will be provided only if school is within the student’s Middle School Proximity Zone.” Of those six, only Veterans Park Academy is inside Zone HH.

High School East Zone, Sub-zone 3, and the open question about Gateway High

The plan carries two documented nuances at high school level. First: “parents or guardians select from among the schools in the sub-zone in which he or she resides and in any contiguous sub-zone within the same zone.” Sub-zone E-2 is contiguous to E-3. Second, the plan’s Exclusive Transportation Zones table on page 13 shows which sub-zones each high school buses. For an E-3 residence, District transportation is listed for Lehigh Senior High, Riverdale High, Gateway High and East Lee County High. Dunbar High does not bus E-3 residents.

Gateway High School earned an A in 2026, and the District highlighted it specifically: “Gateway High School earned an ‘A’ in just its sixth year of operation” (School District of Lee County, “2025-2026 School Grades Report,” posted 1 July 2026). Its 68% of possible points is the highest of any high school relevant to this address. Riverdale High slipped from a B in 2025 to a C in 2026 while holding 58% of possible points.

That last pairing is worth explaining rather than labelling, so here is the scale that produces it. The Florida Department of Education’s high school grading scale is A at 65% or above, B at 60 to 64%, C at 45 to 59%, D at 35 to 44% and F at 34% or below. A 58% school and a 68% school are ten points apart on a scale where the C band alone is fifteen points wide. Three of the four practically reachable high schools are C; the one A is the one furthest outside the Lehigh Acres core.

Two things about Gateway High are unresolved on this record, and this page says so where Gateway is named.

First, whether an E-3 family may actually rank Gateway High on the District’s choice application is not established. Gateway appears in the Exclusive Transportation Zones table for E-3 but not in the Sub-zone 3 ranking block. The contiguous-sub-zone rule, E-2 is contiguous to E-3, may or may not be the route. The only thing that closes this is written confirmation from the School District of Lee County Student Enrollment Office, at [email protected]. This page does not state that a family here can choose Gateway, and it does not state that they cannot.

Second, Gateway High’s road distance and drive time from this property were not computed. The address 13820 Griffin Drive, Fort Myers, did not resolve in the geocoder used for every other distance on this page, so no route was run. No Gateway distance is published here. That gap closes by geocoding the address against a second geocoder and re-running the route.

One further data discrepancy is disclosed rather than hidden. The District locator’s free-text note attribute for the HS East Zone 3 polygon, last edited in January 2024, reads “East Lee County HS, Gateway HS, Lehigh Senior HS, Riverdale HS,” and its ES Zone L note omits Green Meadow entirely. The Board-approved 2026-2027 plan of 1 December 2025 is newer and controls; the locator note is stale, which is evident from comparing the locator’s own edit timestamps with the plan’s approval date.

The choice application calendar and the deadlines that matter to a buyer

All of the above is from the Student Enrollment Plan 2026-2027, Board approved 1 December 2025, and the District’s published enrollment pages, read 17 September 2026.

Proof of address for a new-construction closing

This is a small rule with outsized consequences for a buyer closing on a new home here, and it is rarely published anywhere.

The District accepts as proof of address a utility bill, a signed lease with a landlord letter, a homestead exemption, or a mortgage acceptance letter with a closing date within 30 days of the student attending school, which for new construction means a builder completion letter within 30 days (Student Enrollment Plan 2026-2027, section II). A family closing on an Ibis Landing home in, say, late July can therefore establish residency for the coming school year on the builder’s completion letter, without waiting for a first utility bill. A family closing in September cannot use a letter dated in June.

Magnet, Cambridge, IB and advanced programmes reachable from this address

From section V.B.3 of the plan:

• Cambridge, East Lee County High and Lehigh Senior High, both in-sub-zone, plus Gateway High, and Bonita Springs, Cypress Lake, Estero, Ida S. Baker, Island Coast, Mariner, North Fort Myers and South Fort Myers.
• Arts, Lehigh Senior High, in-sub-zone, plus Cypress Lake High and North Fort Myers High.
• International Baccalaureate, Cape Coral High, Dunbar High, Fort Myers High and Riverdale High. Riverdale is in-sub-zone.
• FGCU Collegiate, Bonita Springs High, Gateway High and Island Coast High.

The conditions attached matter. Admissions and eligibility criteria apply; application runs during the annual open-enrollment window beginning mid-January; “students accepted into an Advanced Program/Magnet Program are committing to four (4) semesters,” and those exiting early “may be assigned to a different school.” Only students genuinely new to the District, moving from another Florida county, another state or another country, may apply after the window. Students moving between Lee County zones, or coming from a Lee County private, charter, virtual or home school, are not “new” for this purpose. And the plan notes that a high school student’s acceptance into an advanced or magnet programme does not guarantee a sibling a place at that school.

Charter and other public options

Charter schools are not part of the zone and lottery system; they admit under their own processes. That follows from the plan’s silence on charters except to classify returning charter students as re-enrollees.

The honest read on school ratings

District-level context, all from the School District of Lee County, read 17 September 2026:

New schools in the pipeline near this address, from the District’s new-construction tracker: Green Meadow Elementary permanent campus, 2 June 2028, in permitting; Alva High School, 7 June 2027, in construction; “OO” Middle School, 2 June 2028, in permitting; “M” Elementary, 30 April 2030, in permitting; and “BBBB” K-8 Fort Myers, 5 April 2028, in permitting.

Capacity is the other half of the picture, and the figures below are reported rather than verified; they come from the Lehigh Acres Citizen and are attributed with their dates rather than presented as District data:

The careful statement is this. East Zone elementary schools were reported at 109% of capacity in June 2026, and the two newest schools opening are in the West Zone, not Lehigh Acres. No named, sited, funded new school for the Lehigh Acres East Zone was found in the reporting reached in this research. Lee County’s own comprehensive plan, at Policy 25.7.3, commits the County to “work with the Lee County School District and other agencies… to identify adequate land to develop additional public facilities needed to accommodate the expected growth of Lehigh Acres”, a commitment to identify land, not a funded school.

Finally, the school run as it will actually be driven. Under the plan’s proximity rules read against the computed distances: this property is within two miles of G. Weaver Hipps Elementary, which by rule means no District bus to that school. Out-of-zone or waiver placements require the parent to drive, “Parents must provide their own transportation if a waiver is approved.” With the nearest Zone L elementary 2.0 road miles away and the furthest 6.1, and the nearest in-sub-zone high school 6.6 road miles away, a two-school household here can face two separate morning runs, on Beth Stacey Boulevard and Homestead Road.

One orientation note on measurement, because two different systems appear on this page and they must never be mixed inside a sentence. Lee County’s school locations layer, read 17 September 2026, gives straight-line distances from this property: G. Weaver Hipps Elementary 1.28 mi; Veterans Park Academy for the Arts 1.33 mi; Lemuel Teal Middle 1.50 mi; Christian Academy for Autism, a private K-12, 1.52 mi; Lehigh Elementary 2.17 mi; Lehigh Acres Christian School, private K-12, 2.33 mi; Amanecer Elementary 2.44 mi; Lehigh Acres Middle 2.48 mi; Palm Acres Charter High 2.66 mi; Sunshine Elementary 2.85 mi; East Lee County High 3.98 mi; Lehigh Senior High 4.53 mi. Those are straight-line figures and they are not the road distances in the tables above. And proximity to a school in that list does not guarantee assignment to it.

One issued project at the nearest school is worth naming, because a parent will see it: LDO2025-00810, “G. Weaver Hipps ES – Perimeter Security Fencing,” issued 9 January 2026, a six-foot to eight-foot galvanised perimeter fence requested by the Lee County School District Security Department.

How close is healthcare to Ibis Landing, and which hospitals actually serve it?

HCA Florida Lehigh Hospital, a 53-bed hospital with a 24/7 emergency department, sits 2.3 road miles from 20920 Copperhead Drive. The nearest Level II trauma centre, Lee Health’s Gulf Coast Medical Center, is 14.4 road miles. Both distances were computed on the OpenStreetMap road network, 17 September 2026.

Hospitals and emergency departments, by measured road distance

How every distance below was measured. All distances were computed on the OpenStreetMap road network using the OSRM public routing service, driving profile, fastest route, on 17 September 2026, from 26.5917286, −81.6594767, the geocode of 20920 Copperhead Drive, Lehigh Acres, whose returned display name was confirmed as a Lee County address. Destination coordinates were geocoded from each facility’s own published street address, and the returned display name was checked against the expected street, city and county in every case. Distances are road-network miles and are reliable. Durations are free-flow model estimates with no traffic, no signals penalty and no time-of-day variation, treat every minute figure as a floor, not a typical trip.

Facility data is from each system’s own published pages, Lee Health’s acute care hospitals fast facts and Gulf Coast Medical Center location page, and HCA Florida Healthcare’s Lehigh Hospital location page, all read 17 September 2026.

The headline emergency fact, and the one that must be said next to it

A 24/7 emergency department is 2.3 road miles, about 7 minutes free-flow, from 20920 Copperhead Drive, at HCA Florida Lehigh Hospital. But the nearest Level II trauma centre is Gulf Coast Medical Center at 14.4 road miles, and Lee Health describes it as “the only Level II Trauma Center between Bradenton and Miami.” For a stroke, major trauma or a paediatric emergency, the realistic destination is 14 to 20 road miles away on surface arterials, not 2.

The distances and the Lee Health quotation are verified. The step from them, that trauma and paediatric cases bypass a 53-bed community hospital, is an inference from the facility inventory, not a statement of any protocol published by either system, and it is labelled as one. Quoting the 2.3 miles without the 14.4 miles would be misleading, so both always appear together.

Lee Health and HCA: the two systems, and what each actually operates here

Lee Health. Four acute care hospitals totalling 1,664 beds, plus one specialty paediatric hospital at 135 beds and two rehabilitation hospitals at 100 beds combined. More than 17,000 employees; a medical staff of more than 2,500; over 950 primary and specialty physicians and advanced practitioners across more than 100 practice locations throughout Southwest Florida; eight outpatient centres, five urgent care locations, two paediatric outpatient facilities and two wellness centres; and “more than 2 million patient contacts each year.”

Its governance changed recently and materially: Lee Health converted from a public health system and special district to a private community-focused nonprofit, “Lee Health System, Inc.,” effective 1 November 2024, under a Mission Agreement with the Lee County Board of County Commissioners that legally binds it to its safety-net mission, “offering high-quality healthcare to everyone in the community, regardless of their ability to pay” (Lee Health press release, 30 October 2024). All four of Lee Health’s acute hospitals are west of I-75, in Fort Myers and Cape Coral.

HCA Florida Healthcare, West Florida Division. HCA acquired Lehigh Regional Medical Center from Prime Healthcare, completing on 27 February 2025, and renamed it HCA Florida Lehigh Hospital. The hospital carries 53 beds and was founded in 1965. The announced total commitment was $134.5 million, covering the hospital acquisition plus construction of a new freestanding emergency room (HCA Florida Healthcare newsroom release, 27 February 2025). Jyric Sims, Ph.D., President of the HCA Healthcare West Florida Division, said at the time: “This hospital and associated physician practices are a wonderful complimentary addition to our existing 17 hospitals within our division along Florida’s West Coast and will serve as a catalyst for growth.”

Leadership at HCA Florida Lehigh Hospital is Chief Executive Paige Laughlin, Chief Financial Officer Cheryl McIntire, Chief Medical Officer Brian Hummel, MD, and Chief Nursing Officer Harry Walk, RN. The services the hospital itself lists are emergency services, critical care, cardiology, gastroenterology, general surgery, nephrology, orthopaedics, pathology, imaging, joint care, spine care, weight-loss surgery and surgical services including gynaecology.

Why no service-area boundary appears on this page

Neither Lee Health nor HCA Florida Healthcare publishes a municipality-level or mapped service-area boundary for Lee County. Lee Health’s own published material defines its service area as “Southwest Florida” and does not name Lehigh Acres in its fast facts. HCA does not publish a boundary either; its Lee County footprint is the Lehigh hospital plus freestanding emergency rooms. What exists publicly is a facility inventory, not a boundary (both checked 17 September 2026).

The record class that would close this is the Community Health Needs Assessment filings both systems must produce, which define a service area by ZIP code. Those filings were not obtained in this research, and that is disclosed here rather than in a footnote. So no service-area boundary for either system is drawn, described, estimated, implied or approximated anywhere on this page. What is published is the facility inventory and the measured distances.

The practical read for a buyer at Ibis Landing Golf & Country Club, Lehigh Acres, Lee County, Florida, inferred from that inventory and those distances: East Lee County is served by one small acute hospital inside Lehigh Acres, HCA’s, at 53 beds, and by Lee Health’s large hospitals 14 to 23 road miles west. Lehigh Acres is not inside a large-hospital catchment; it is at the eastern edge of one.

Under construction and announced, with dates

The net effect for this address, inferred from those project descriptions read against the road geography: the two projects that materially change healthcare access from Ibis Landing are the Lee Health outpatient center at The Forum on State Road 82, scheduled for 2027, the first Lee Health primary-care and urgent-care presence explicitly aimed at Lehigh Acres, and HCA Florida Alico Emergency, planned for late 2026, which puts a freestanding emergency room on the Alico Road corridor this property will reach by way of the Alico Road Extension described in the civic pipeline section below.

One land holding 1.13 miles away is worth naming precisely because it is so easy to overstate. Case ADD2024-00040 is an administrative variance to add healthcare facilities Groups I, II and III to the schedule of uses on 13.02 acres. A parcel overlay confirms that Lee Health System Inc owns STRAP 0545270000003000A, 13.04 acres, zoned MPD, classified commercial vacant. Status is Approved–To Mapping, and no development order has been filed as of 17 September 2026 (Lee County zoning and parcel records, read 17 September 2026). That is an approved use addition on land Lee Health owns. It is not an announced facility. It has no development order, no size, no date and no name, and it is published here as exactly that and nothing more.

Urgent care, primary care and safety-net clinics

Facility details are from each provider’s own pages and, for MedExpress, from the state agency directory; distances were computed 17 September 2026 by the method stated above.

Fire, rescue and EMS

The property is inside the Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District, an independent special fire district, and Lee County EMS provides county ambulance transport. The district is Lee County taxing authority 088 and impact-fee district 8.

Station addresses are from the district’s own station-locations page; road distances were computed 17 September 2026; straight-line distances are from the Lee County fire station locations layer, read the same day.

Those two distance columns are different measurements and must not be read as one. By straight-line measurement Station 102 is nearest, at 1.16 miles. By computed road route Station 104 is the shorter drive, at 2.4 miles. Neither ranking is “the” answer, and neither is a response time.

Station 107 at 5105 Leonard Boulevard South opened on 12 September 2024, the district’s seventh station, on the district’s west side near State Road 82 (reported, East Lee News, 5 August 2024, corroborated by the station’s presence on the district’s own station-locations page, 17 September 2026). At the nearest station, LDO2022-00291, “Lehigh Acres Fire Station 102 Admin,” was issued 14 November 2024 to mill and resurface the existing parking lot and relocate the accessible spaces.

One county GIS attribute is worth flagging so a reader is not misled by it: the Lee County GIS record for the fire district at this site lists 636 Thomas Sherwin Avenue South, telephone (239) 303-5300, as the district contact address. That is Station 105’s address, not the responding station.

An open gap is disclosed here, at the point of use. The Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District’s ISO Public Protection Classification and its measured response times are not published on the district’s site, and ISO class affects homeowners’ insurance rating. The record class that would close it is the district’s annual report or a public-records request to the district. No ISO class and no response time is stated or estimated anywhere on this page.

Two further records deserve accurate framing. DOS2025-00189, “Synovus Bank Phase 2,” issued 15 January 2026, revises the phase-2 area “for the potential purchase of phase 2 area by the Lehigh Acres Fire Department for an administrative building,” 1.10 miles from the community. That is a stated potential purchase inside a site-plan revision, not a completed acquisition, and it is not a new fire facility. And no application, development order or news report for a new fire or EMS station exists within one mile of Ibis Landing, a verified absence across the Lee County zoning-case and development-order layers within the measured one-mile ring, 17 September 2026.

How far is Ibis Landing from the airport, I-75, downtown Fort Myers and the beach?

From 20920 Copperhead Drive, Southwest Florida International Airport is 9.3 road miles, the nearest I-75 interchange at Daniels Parkway is 11.1 road miles, and Fort Myers Beach is 24.7 road miles. All figures were computed on the OpenStreetMap road network using OSRM’s driving profile on 17 September 2026.

How these distances were measured, and why that matters

Every distance and time in this section was computed, not quoted from a consumer mapping app and not estimated.

• Origin: 26.5917286, −81.6594767, the geocode of 20920 Copperhead Drive, Lehigh Acres, FL 33936. The geocoder’s returned display name was confirmed as “20920, Copperhead Drive, Lehigh Acres, Lee County, Florida, 33936, United States,” and the routing engine snapped to Copperhead Drive.
• Destinations: geocoded from each facility’s or agency’s official published street address, with the returned display name checked against the expected street, city and county in every case.
• Routing: the OSRM public routing service on the OpenStreetMap road network, driving profile, fastest route. Road names come from the routing engine’s own turn-by-turn steps.
• Date computed: 17 September 2026.

Distances are road-network miles and are reliable. Durations are free-flow model estimates with no traffic, no signals penalty and no time-of-day variation, so real peak-hour times on these corridors will be longer, in several cases materially longer. Every minute figure below is a floor, not a typical trip.

The one standout: 9.3 road miles to Southwest Florida International Airport

Southwest Florida International Airport, 11000 Terminal Access Road, Fort Myers FL 33913, 9.3 road miles, approximately 21 minutes free-flow from 20920 Copperhead Drive.

The computed turn-by-turn, with cumulative miles:

Under ten road miles to an international airport terminal is a real, defensible advantage of this specific corner of Lehigh Acres. It works because the property sits at the southwest edge of Lehigh Acres, where 23rd Street SW and Gunnery Road South feed directly into the Daniels Parkway corridor. It is not representative of Lehigh Acres as a whole, and it is stated here as a property-specific advantage, not a district-wide one.

The full measured distance table, with the route named for each

The beach question, answered with a number

From 20920 Copperhead Drive, Fort Myers Beach is 24.7 road miles and 46 minutes in free-flow conditions. In season, on Summerlin Road and San Carlos Boulevard, that is routinely much longer. Bonita Beach Park is 32.0 road miles. Sanibel requires the causeway toll on top of 17.7 miles just to reach the toll plaza.

Any description of this community as “close to the beach” is not supportable. That sentence is published deliberately, because the phrase appears on competing pages for this community and it is not true. Ibis Landing Golf & Country Club, Lehigh Acres, Lee County, Florida is an inland community about twenty miles from the Gulf, and every number above is a free-flow floor on named corridors.

Two corridors carry almost every westbound trip from this address

Five points summarise access honestly, and they are the five a buyer should weigh.

One, the beaches are not close. See the numbers above.

Two, I-75 is not at the door. The nearest interchange is approximately 11.1 road miles away at Daniels Parkway, reached by three surface roads. Traffic from Lehigh Acres to I-75 is exactly the congestion the Alico Road Extension is being built to relieve.

Three, downtown Fort Myers is a 16-mile surface-street trip on Lee Boulevard and State Road 82 into Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, with no limited-access segment at all.

Four, the airport is the standout, at 9.3 miles.

Five, day-to-day retail is local and modest. The nearest grocery cluster is under 3 road miles on Lee Boulevard; the nearest regional shopping, at Bell Tower, Gulf Coast Town Center and Edison Mall, is 14.7 to 16.5 road miles.

And one structural observation, inferred from the computed route set itself: every one of the fourteen destinations above uses one of two corridors. Almost every westbound trip from this address funnels onto either 23rd Street SW → Gunnery Road South → Daniels Parkway, heading southwest to the airport, the Daniels corridor and I-75, or Lee Boulevard → State Road 82 / Colonial Boulevard, heading northwest to downtown and Cape Coral. Both are named in active county and state road projects, set out in the next section. That concentration is the real access risk here, and it is also the reason the road projects matter so much to this specific address.

What Lehigh Acres commuters actually spend on the road

Those are U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts, vintage V2025.

This is the honesty check on every free-flow minute figure above. The average Lehigh Acres worker spends 38.2 minutes each way, nearly nine minutes longer than the Lee County average and about 30% above it. Lehigh Acres is a bedroom community whose jobs are mostly elsewhere in Lee County, reached on the two surface corridors named above. The commute numbers are verified; the bedroom-community characterisation is an inference from the commute gap read against the County’s own congestion-relief project rationale.

Public transport, and why it is not a commuting option here

One specific negative finding, with its caveat, both halves published. Ibis Landing appears to sit outside the LeeTran ULTRA on-demand service zone. The published southern boundary is 2nd Street SW, and the nearest point of the 2nd Street SW centreline was measured at 2,371 metres, 1.47 miles, north of the Ibis Landing clubhouse, computed point by point against actual centreline vertices in the Lee County road centrelines layer on 17 September 2026. The community is therefore south of the stated southern boundary. But that conclusion rests on the published boundary description plus a measured centreline distance. The service-area polygon itself was not obtained, and a street-name boundary can bend. This page therefore states neither that the community is inside the zone nor that it is definitively outside it; it publishes the measured gap and the limit of the evidence, and a rider should confirm against LeeTran’s own published service-area map.

The honest read on public transport, inferred from the two-route inventory, the single express destination and the computed distance: public transport from this address is functionally not an option for commuting. Two routes serve a community of 114,287 people; the express connection runs to Edison Mall, not downtown, not the airport, not the Daniels employment corridor; and the Park & Ride is itself a 2.8-mile drive away.

Three open gaps are disclosed here rather than papered over. Peak-hour travel times on 23rd Street SW → Gunnery Road South → Daniels Parkway, and on Lee Boulevard → State Road 82, were not obtained; every minute figure on this page is a free-flow floor, and the 38.2-minute mean commute says the real numbers are materially higher. No peak-hour time is estimated. The distance to the I-75 interchange at State Road 82, the alternative northern approach, was not computed, that junction did not resolve as a geocodable point, so only the Daniels Parkway interchange figure of 11.1 miles exists on this record and no second I-75 distance is stated. And current I-75 exit numbers for the Daniels Parkway and State Road 82 interchanges were not confirmed from a primary source, so interchanges are named here by cross street, never by exit number.

Frequently Asked Questions: Schools, Healthcare and Drive Times at Ibis Landing

These are the questions buyers and sellers actually ask us about schools, healthcare and getting around from Ibis Landing, answered from the same records cited above.

What are the school ratings for Ibis Landing?

The schools a family at Ibis Landing actually ranks are predominantly C-graded and Title I, and the honest version publishes the grades, the scale and the Title I status together. In Elementary Proximity Zone L, the six schools a family ranks and their 2026 Florida Department of Education grades: G. Weaver Hipps Elementary C (2.0 road miles, 51% of possible points, 1,059 enrolled), Veterans Park Academy for the Arts K-8 C (3.3 miles, 54%), Amanecer Elementary C (4.0 miles, 50%), Lehigh Elementary C (4.0 miles, 52%), Mirror Lakes Elementary B (5.8 miles, 59%) and Green Meadow Elementary, a brand-new school with no grade yet, on a temporary campus that opened August 2026 with a permanent campus expected June 2028. Every graded Zone L elementary is Title I with 100% economically disadvantaged enrolment in the state file. In Middle Proximity Zone HH: Veterans Park Academy C, Lemuel Teal Middle C, Lehigh Acres Middle C. In High School East Zone, Sub-zone 3: Lehigh Senior High C (58% of possible points, 97% graduation rate), East Lee County High C (49%, 97%), Riverdale High C (58%, 97%, down from B in 2025). Read the scale before reading the letters: for high schools, FDOE grades A at 65% or more, B at 60–64%, C at 45–59%, D at 35–44% and F at 34% or less, which is why a 58% school and a 68% school are both worth explaining rather than labelling. The District as a whole earned a B for 2025-2026, with 24 A’s and 29 B’s and no school graded D or F.

What schools serve Ibis Landing, and which district is it in?

Ibis Landing is served by The School District of Lee County, and Lee County does not assign one school to one address. The District runs choice-within-zone with a lottery: families rank, in preference order, all the available schools in their residential or choice zone, and the lottery decides when applicants exceed seats. Queried directly against the District’s own “Lee County 26-27” enrollment-zone locator on 17 September 2026, 20920 Copperhead Drive returns Elementary Proximity Zone L, Middle Proximity Zone HH and High School East Zone Sub-zone 3, in School Board trustee district 5. Zone L’s six elementaries, Zone HH’s three middle schools and Sub-zone 3’s three high schools are listed in the school-ratings answer above, cross-checked against the Board-approved Student Enrollment Plan 2026-2027, approved 1 December 2025, which is the controlling document. Harns Marsh Middle School earned an A in 2026 and is five miles away in Lehigh Acres, but it sits in Proximity Zone JJ, not HH, so it is not rankable from this address and carries no District transportation. That is exactly the school a city-level “schools in Lehigh Acres” list attributes here wrongly. An assignment for this address is a zone plus a lottery outcome, valid for one plan year, and the plan is re-approved annually. Two dates a buyer needs: the 2026-2027 open enrollment window ran 20 January to 27 February 2026, and the cross-zone and hardship waiver deadline is 31 July. For a new-construction closing, the District accepts a builder completion letter dated within 30 days of the student attending as proof of address.

How far is Ibis Landing from Fort Myers?

From 20920 Copperhead Drive, downtown Fort Myers, First Street and the River District, is 16.0 road miles and about 31 minutes in free-flow conditions, via Beth Stacey Boulevard, Homestead Road North, Lee Boulevard, State Road 82 and Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard. There is no limited-access segment on that trip at all; it is 16 miles of surface street. The Lee County Justice Center is on the same corridor at 16.0 miles. Other measured destinations from the same origin: Gulf Coast Town Center 14.7 miles (no interstate used), Bell Tower Shops 15.4 miles, Edison Mall 16.5 miles, Florida Gulf Coast University 16.8 miles, Miromar Outlets 19.4 miles and Coconut Point 22.9 miles. The nearest full grocery cluster is 2.8 miles on Lee Boulevard. Every figure was computed on the OpenStreetMap road network using the OSRM driving profile, fastest route, on 17 September 2026, from the geocoded community address, not quoted from a consumer mapping app. Distances are road-network miles and are reliable. Durations are free-flow model estimates with no traffic and no signal penalty, so treat every minute figure as a floor, not a typical trip, and the Census’s 38.2-minute mean commute for Lehigh Acres workers says the real numbers are materially higher.

How far is Ibis Landing from the beach?

From 20920 Copperhead Drive, Fort Myers Beach, Times Square on Estero Boulevard, is 24.7 road miles and 46 minutes in free-flow conditions, via Daniels Parkway, Six Mile Cypress Parkway, Gladiolus Drive, Summerlin Road and San Carlos Boulevard. Bonita Beach Park is 32.0 road miles and 49 minutes, via Daniels Parkway, 14.6 miles of Interstate 75 south, and Bonita Beach Road. The Sanibel Causeway toll plaza is 17.7 road miles and 32 minutes, and that is the toll plaza, not the islands, with the causeway toll payable on top. All three were computed on the OpenStreetMap road network using the OSRM driving profile on 17 September 2026, and every duration is a free-flow floor with no traffic and no signal penalty; in season, on Summerlin Road and San Carlos Boulevard, the real trip is routinely much longer. Any description of this community as “close to the beach” is not supportable. And while the community has lakes, it has no water access of any kind: across 1,665 Lee County parcels in Section 6-45-27, the number carrying a boat dock or seawall attribute is zero, and every water body inside Ibis Landing is an internal man-made lake, 11.77, 3.23, 2.20, 1.51, 1.49 and 0.71 acres coded lake, plus three submerged parcels, none of which connects to navigable water.

What is the closest airport to Ibis Landing?

Southwest Florida International Airport is 9.3 road miles from 20920 Copperhead Drive, about 21 minutes in free-flow conditions, and it is the one access claim about this community that holds up without qualification. The computed route runs Copperhead Drive to Beth Stacey Boulevard South at 0.45 miles, left onto 23rd Street Southwest at 1.94, through the roundabout at 4.02, left onto Gunnery Road South at 4.69, straight onto Daniels Parkway at 7.63, left onto Paul J Doherty Parkway at 8.48, through the Chamberlin Parkway roundabout at 9.09, arriving at the terminal at 9.33 miles. Computed on the OpenStreetMap road network with the OSRM driving profile, 17 September 2026. This works because the property sits at the southwest edge of Lehigh Acres, where 23rd Street SW and Gunnery Road South feed straight into the Daniels Parkway corridor. It is not representative of Lehigh Acres as a whole, and the page says so in the same breath. For contrast on the same corridor: the nearest Interstate 75 interchange, at Daniels Parkway, is 11.1 road miles to the on-ramp, reached on three surface roads. Duration figures are free-flow floors, not typical trips.

Is Lehigh Acres a good place to retire?

Ibis Landing Golf & Country Club is an all-ages community with no age restriction, a full-text search of the 76-page Master Declaration (Lee County Instrument 2022000397088, recorded 29 December 2022) and its Bylaws for “fifty-five,” “55+,” “housing for older persons” and “age restrict” returns zero hits, and none of the four recorded condominium declarations imposes one, so a retiree here is buying into a community with children in it, not an active-adult community. On the practical questions a retiring buyer asks: a 24/7 emergency department is 2.3 road miles away at HCA Florida Lehigh Hospital, a 53-bed facility, but the nearest Level II trauma centre is Gulf Coast Medical Center at 14.4 road miles, and for a stroke, major trauma or a paediatric emergency the realistic destination is 14 to 20 road miles away on surface arterials (distances computed on the OpenStreetMap road network, 17 September 2026). Southwest Florida International Airport is 9.3 road miles. Fort Myers Beach is 24.7 road miles and 46 minutes in free-flow conditions, which is not a short trip. And public transport is functionally not a commuting option: two LeeTran routes serve a community of 114,287 people (2020 Census), and the express connection runs to Edison Mall.

Why is Lehigh Acres cheaper than the rest of Lee County?

Four measured structural facts, each sourced, sit behind that question, and no county-wide price comparison was derived for this page, so this is an answer about mechanism rather than about a price gap. The commute is longer. Mean travel time to work for Lehigh Acres workers aged 16 and over is 38.2 minutes, against 29.4 minutes county-wide, about nine minutes longer each way, roughly 30% above the county average (U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts, American Community Survey 2020–2024, vintage V2025). Incomes are lower. Median household income is $66,890 against $76,107 county-wide, in 2024 dollars, from the same source. The housing stock is mostly old, and pre-dates any statewide building code. Lee County parcel records read 17 September 2026 show streets a mile from Ibis Landing built entirely in 1972 (Hamlin Court 56 parcels, Tangerine Court 50, Tangelo Court 38, Temple Court 36), and Florida had no unified statewide building code before the 2001 Florida Building Code took effect on 1 March 2002. And the schools in this assignment zone are predominantly C-graded and Title I, with one B elementary. The important qualification for anyone applying that to Ibis Landing: fifty-five of the 57 closed sales in this community over the trailing twelve months were built 2022 to 2026 (Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 17 September 2026), so this community is not the 1960s and 1970s grid, and the two should never be averaged into one statement.

When are the Lee County school choice deadlines an Ibis Landing family has to hit?

For 2026-2027 the open enrollment window ran from 20 January 2026 to 27 February 2026, and the District’s own wording is that “Choice Applications are due by February 27th.” Applications go through the FOCUS Parent Portal and are all processed in the same student assignment lottery, so applying on the first day of the window carries no advantage over the last. Advanced programme applications, meaning IB, Cambridge, Arts, FGCU and STEAM, go directly to the school by 2 February with a choice application receipt showing that school ranked first. Cross-zone and hardship waivers both close 31 July, the cross-zone waiver is reviewed once and the decision is final. Registration for the following school year opens the first Monday in November. All of that is from the Student Enrollment Plan 2026-2027, Board approved 1 December 2025, read 17 September 2026.

Sources and Authoritative References for This Ibis Landing Page

Rows routed from the Ibis Landing research catalogue to the schools, healthcare and drive-times sibling page. Grouped by the authority that issued them and carried verbatim.

Lee County government and its own geographic information systems

1. Lee County DOT, Projects. https://www.leegov.com/dot/projects Proves: The county road programme index, the durable route for the Buckingham/Gunnery roundabout after its microsite’s domain died (X7).
2. Lee County DOT, Engineering Services, Project Plans. https://www.leegov.com/dot/engineeringservices/projectsplans Proves: Plan sets for county road projects.
3. Alico Road Extension project site (Lee County DOT). https://alicoroadextension.com/ Proves: The better Alico Extension primary, replacing dead entry X2 (the consultant’s article). The project’s own site.
4. Alico Road Extension, Project FAQs. https://alicoroadextension.com/project-faqs/ Proves: Timing, alignment and access answers in the authority’s own words.
5. Alico Road Extension, project flyer. Apr 2023. https://alicoroadextension.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Alico_Road_Extension_Flyer_FINAL.pdf Proves: The one-page project summary a buyer can actually read.
6. LeeTran, Route 110 schedule. 2025. https://www.leegov.com/leetran/Documents/LT250110203%20RT110%20IndividualBusRouteWeb22.75x8.5.pdf Proves: Fixed-route transit serving the Lehigh corridor.
7. LeeTran, Route 515 schedule. Nov 2024. https://www.leegov.com/leetran/Documents/Route%20515%20112024.pdf Proves: The second Lehigh-serving route.
8. LeeTran, text-only schedules / route list. https://www.leegov.com/leetran/text-only-schedules Proves: The durable route index.
9. LeeTran, Current Projects. https://www.leegov.com/leetran/about-leetran/current-projects Proves: Including the ULTRA On-Demand service expansion in Lehigh Acres.
10. Lee County Metropolitan Planning Organization, Transportation Improvement Program. https://leempo.com/programs/transportation-improvement-program/ Proves: The funded five-year road programme. Live replacement measured 2026-09-17 for dead entry X4..
11. Lee County MPO, Long Range Transportation Plan. https://leempo.com/plans/long-range-transportation-plan/ Proves: The 20-year plan landing page.
12. Lee County MPO, 2045 Long Range Transportation Plan, main document. 2045 LRTP. https://leempo.com/wp-content/uploads/Lee-MPO-2045-LRTP-Main-Document.pdf Proves: The adopted long-range plan text.
13. Lee County, Transportation Improvement Program FY 2020/21 – 2024/25 (archived). FY2021–25. https://www.leegov.com/library/Documents/TIP-FY20-21-through-24-25.pdf Proves: The prior TIP, for showing what was promised versus delivered.
14. Lee County GIS, Fire Station Locations feature service. Queried 17 Sep 2026. https://services2.arcgis.com/LvWGAAhHwbCJ2GMP/arcgis/rest/services/Fire_Station_Locations/FeatureServer/0 Proves: Nearest-station distance, measured rather than asserted.
15. Lee County GIS, School Locations feature service. Queried 17 Sep 2026. https://services2.arcgis.com/LvWGAAhHwbCJ2GMP/arcgis/rest/services/School_Locations/FeatureServer/0 Proves: School coordinates for measured drive distances.
16. Lee County GIS, School Enrollment / Proximity Zones 2026-27 feature service. 2026-27. https://services2.arcgis.com/LvWGAAhHwbCJ2GMP/arcgis/rest/services/SchoolProximityZones_2627/FeatureServer/0 Proves: The school-attendance geography for the community’s parcels.
17. Lee County Southwest Florida road projects (FDOT District One co-branded), SR 82 Lee-to-Hendry programme page. http://swflroads.com/sr82/leetohendry/ Proves: The SR 82 widening programme as it affects the Lehigh corridor.

Florida state agencies and the Florida Building Commission

18. FDOT District One / SWFL Roads, Lehigh Acres construction projects. https://www.swflroads.com/projects/City/LehighAcres/Construction Proves: Every state road project in construction in Lehigh Acres.
19. FDOT District One / SWFL Roads, Lee County, all projects. https://www.swflroads.com/projects/County/Lee Proves: The countywide state programme.
20. FDOT District One / SWFL Roads, SR 82 projects. https://www.swflroads.com/projects/Road/SR82/Construction Proves: SR 82 is the corridor that determines drive times out of Lehigh.
21. FDOT project 425841-6, SR 82 Homestead Road to Lee/Hendry County Line. https://www.swflroads.com/project/425841-6 Proves: Segment-level scope, schedule and status.
22. FDOT project 425841-3, SR 82 Alabama Road to Lee/Hendry County Line. https://www.swflroads.com/project/425841-3 Proves: Segment-level scope, schedule and status.
23. FDOT project 430848-1, SR 82 Hendry County Line to Gator Slough Lane. https://www.swflroads.com/project/430848-1 Proves: Segment-level scope, schedule and status.

Schools, The School District of Lee County and the Florida Department of Education

24. The School District of Lee County, Student Enrollment Plan 2026-2027, Board approved 1 December 2025, 21 pp. Board approved 1 Dec 2025. https://www.leeschools.net/common/pages/GetFile.ashx?key=c5aKDQZk Proves: The assignment rules in the District’s own words, how a Lehigh address is assigned, and how school choice interacts with it.
25. The School District of Lee County, Student Enrollment (the page that publishes F1 and the zone maps). https://www.leeschools.net/student_enrollment Proves: The durable landing page for the enrollment plan and zone maps.
26. The School District of Lee County, Map of School Enrollment Zones (Elementary, K-8, Middle, High), linking the District’s SchoolSite Locator application. 2026-27. https://www.leeschools.net/student_enrollment/school_zones Proves: The District’s own official address lookup, the authority for what school an Ibis Landing address is assigned to.
27. The School District of Lee County, SchoolSite Locator, “Lee County 26-27” (district dataset leecounty2627); queried at 26.5917286, −81.6594767 on 17 September 2026. Queried 17 Sep 2026. https://www.schoolsitelocator.com/apps/leecounty/ Proves: The coordinate-level school-assignment query, a route to the answer that does not read the community’s name.
28. The School District of Lee County, Charter Schools list. https://www.leeschools.net/our_schools/schools/charter_schools Proves: The charter options a Lehigh family actually has.
29. Veterans Park Academy for the Arts, school site (address). https://vpa.leeschools.net/ Proves: The K-8 named in the assignment set, from its own site.
30. The School District of Lee County, 2025-2026 School Grades Report, posted 1 July 2026. Posted 1 Jul 2026. https://www.leeschools.net/news/july_2026/2025-2026_school_grades_report Proves: The District’s own publication of the current grades.
31. The School District of Lee County, “Open Enrollment Begins Entirely Online January 20th”. Jan 2026. https://www.leeschools.net/news/january_2026/open_enrollment_entirely_online_january_20th Proves: The current-cycle choice process and its dates, directly actionable for a relocating buyer.
32. The School District of Lee County, New Construction project tracker. https://www.leeschools.net/our_district/departments/operations/construction/project_updates/new_construction Proves: Which schools are being built and when, the capacity story behind a growing Lehigh.
33. The School District of Lee County, “Green Meadow Elementary Construction Update”, posted 30 July 2026. Posted 30 Jul 2026. https://www.leeschools.net/news/july_2026/green_meadow_elementary_construction_update Proves: A named, dated new-school milestone.
34. The School District of Lee County, “Voting Open to Select a Name for Two New Schools”. Nov 2025. https://www.leeschools.net/news/november_2025/select_a_name_for_two_new_schools Proves: Two more schools coming online.
35. The School District of Lee County, Transportation Optimization. https://www.leeschools.net/support/transportation_optimization Proves: Busing policy and the walk/ride boundary that decides whether a family drives.
36. The School District of Lee County, Fast Facts / Impact Reports. https://www.leeschools.net/our_district/fast_facts Proves: District-level enrolment and capacity context.
37. The School District of Lee County, homepage. https://www.leeschools.net/ Proves: The authority’s landing page.
38. Florida Department of Education, School Grades, SchoolGrades26.xlsx; file header reads “2025-26 School Grades as of September 1, 2026.”. As of 1 Sep 2026. https://www.fldoe.org/file/18534/SchoolGrades26.xlsx Proves: The state’s own grade file, the only authority for a school grade. Print the header date beside the grade.
39. Florida Department of Education, School Grades / accountability reporting landing page. https://www.fldoe.org/accountability/accountability-reporting/school-grades/ Proves: The Department of Education page where the school-grades file is published.
40. Florida Department of Education, Student Enrollment by Grade Level, 2526MembBySchoolByGrade.xlsx, 2025-26 Final Survey 2 (the October 2025 count). Final Survey 2, Oct 2025. https://www.fldoe.org/file/7584/2526MembBySchoolByGrade.xlsx Proves: School-by-school enrolment against capacity, the crowding question a parent is really asking.
41. Florida Department of Education, PK-12 Public School Data Publications & Reports (Students). https://www.fldoe.org/accountability/data-sys/edu-info-accountability-services/pk-12-public-school-data-pubs-reports/students.stml Proves: The Department of Education page where the student-enrolment file is published.
42. Florida Department of Education, K-12 Scholarship Programs. https://www.fldoe.org/schools/school-choice/k-12-scholarship-programs/ Proves: The state scholarship options that change the school calculus for a Lehigh family.

News media, regional, and the chamber of commerce

43. Lehigh Acres Citizen, “East Zone prioritized as student growth drives needs”, 11 September 2025. 11 Sep 2025. https://www.lehighacrescitizen.com/2025/09/11/east-zone-prioritized-as-student-growth-drives-needs/ Proves: School capacity pressure in the East Zone, the zone that serves this community.
44. Lehigh Acres Citizen, “School district looks at capital needs as population grows”, 15 June 2026. 15 Jun 2026. https://www.lehighacrescitizen.com/2026/06/15/school-district-looks-at-capital-needs-as-population-grows/ Proves: The district’s capital response to growth.
45. WGCU, “LeeTran expands ULTRA On-Demand service area in Lehigh Acres”, 25 February 2026. 25 Feb 2026. https://www.wgcu.org/section/transportation/2026-02-25/leetran-expands-ultra-on-demand-service-area-in-lehigh-acres Proves: Current transit service change in Lehigh.
46. WGCU, “Half-priced fares for Mobility on Demand rides planned via LeeTran pilot program in Lehigh Acres”, 9 June 2025. 9 Jun 2025. https://www.wgcu.org/section/transportation/2025-06-09/half-priced-fares-for-mobility-on-demand-rides-planned-via-leetran-pilot-program-in-lehigh-acres Proves: The LeeTran Mobility on Demand half-fare pilot in Lehigh Acres.
47. WGCU, “Two new Lee County schools need names, public input open”, 14 October 2025. 14 Oct 2025. https://www.wgcu.org/education/2025-10-14/two-new-lee-county-schools-need-names-public-input-open Proves: Corroborates the two new Lee County schools in the district’s pipeline.
48. WGCU, “HCA Florida Healthcare plans to build full-service hospital in Cape Coral”, 14 August 2026. 14 Aug 2026. https://www.wgcu.org/health/2026-08-14/hca-florida-healthcare-plans-to-build-full-service-hospital-in-cape-coral Proves: Regional hospital capacity.
49. WINK News, “Lehigh Acres traffic relief project gets green light from county leaders”, 21 April 2026. 21 Apr 2026. https://www.winknews.com/news/lee/lehigh-acres-traffic-relief-project-gets-green-light-from-county-leaders/article_acebd6ea-937f-470f-a8c1-185eb74e2d35.html Proves: A dated county approval on the traffic question every Lehigh buyer asks.
50. WINK News, “New park and ride opens in Lehigh Acres to ease traffic woes”, 29 April 2025. 29 Apr 2025. https://www.winknews.com/news/lee/new-park-and-ride-opens-lehigh-acres-ease-traffic-woes/article_9444b9ca-5464-4bca-bcac-5d9747aa01e7.html Proves: A delivered transit facility, dated.
51. Fox 4, “‘Revolutionize the traffic flow’: Lee DOT on final design phases for Alico Extension”. https://www.fox4now.com/lehigh-acres/revolutionize-the-traffic-flow-lee-dot-on-final-design-phases-for-alico-extension Proves: The Alico Extension design stage, in the county DOT’s own words to a reporter.
52. East Lee News, “Transportation Projects for Lehigh Acres”, 7 October 2024. 7 Oct 2024. https://eastleenews.com/transportation-projects-for-lehigh-acres/ Proves: A local consolidated view of the road programme.
53. East Lee News, “Lehigh Acres Fire Control & Rescue District Announces Grand Opening of Station 107”, 5 August 2024. 5 Aug 2024. https://eastleenews.com/grand-opening-of-station-107/ Proves: A dated new fire station, a response-time fact.
54. Gulfshore Business, “Funding and timing of Lee County’s future road projects”. https://www.gulfshorebusiness.com/lee/comprehensive-plans-for-lee-countys-upcoming-road-projects/article_007564d4-339c-4a23-8f9f-4263b1f1a230.html Proves: Regional business coverage of the road programme’s funding and timing.
55. Florida Weekly, “Lee Health expands healthcare access in Eastern Lee County with new outpatient center at The Forum”. 2026. https://www.floridaweekly.com/articles/fort-myers-arts-and-entertainment-news/fort-myers/lee-health-expands-healthcare-access-in-eastern-lee-county-with-new-outpatient-center-at-the-forum/ Proves: Regional coverage of the Lee Health outpatient centre at The Forum, in eastern Lee County.
56. East Lee County Chamber of Commerce, “HCA Florida Purchase Lehigh Regional Medical Center”, 4 March 2025. 4 Mar 2025. https://eastleechamber.com/hca-and-lehigh-regional/ Proves: The local chamber’s record of the hospital ownership change.

Health care, public safety and civic institutions of record

57. Lee Health, Gulf Coast Medical Center location page. https://www.leehealth.org/locations/find-a-location/gulf-coast-medical-center Proves: The nearest full-service acute-care hospital to the community. Pair the address with a measured OSRM drive rather than an adjective.
58. Lee Health, Lee Health Acute Care Hospitals Fast Facts. https://www.leehealth.org/about-us/get-to-know-lee-health/lee-health-fast-facts/lee-health-four-acute-care-hospitals-fast-facts Proves: Bed counts and service lines across the four acute-care hospitals.
59. Lee Health, Lee Health Fast Facts. https://www.leehealth.org/about-us/get-to-know-lee-health/lee-health-fast-facts Proves: System-level scale.
60. Lee Health press release, “Lee Health Expands Healthcare Access in Eastern Lee County with New Outpatient Center at The Forum”, 20 August 2026. 20 Aug 2026. https://www.leehealth.org/about-us/media/press-releases/lee-health-expands-healthcare-access-in-eastern-le Proves: New care capacity in eastern Lee County, the side of the county this community is on.
61. Lee Health press release, “Lee Health and Lee County Vote to Approve Mission Agreement…”, 30 October 2024. 30 Oct 2024. https://www.leehealth.org/about-us/media/press-releases/lee-health-and-lee-county-vote-to-approve-mission Proves: The conversion of the public health system’s governance, relevant to long-run local care.
62. Lee Health press release, “Lee Health Moves Forward with Plans to Build New Medical Destination in Fort Myers”, 15 September 2023. 15 Sep 2023. https://www.leehealth.org/about-us/media/press-releases/lee-health-moves-forward-with-plans-to-build-new-m Proves: Regional capacity pipeline.
63. Lee Health, Lee Convenient Care / urgent care. https://www.leehealth.org/our-services/urgent-care Proves: Urgent-care locations, the everyday care question.
64. HCA Florida Lehigh Hospital, location page. https://www.hcafloridahealthcare.com/locations/lehigh-hospital Proves: The hospital inside Lehigh Acres itself, the nearest emergency department, from its operator.
65. HCA Florida Healthcare newsroom, “HCA Florida Healthcare completes purchase of Lehigh Regional Medical Center”, 27 February 2025. 27 Feb 2025. https://www.hcafloridahealthcare.com/about-us/newsroom/hca-florida-healthcare-completes-purchase-of-lehigh-regional-medical-center Proves: The dated ownership change of the Lehigh hospital.
66. HCA Florida Healthcare newsroom, Cape Coral hospital announcement. https://www.hcafloridahealthcare.com/about-us/newsroom/hca-florida-healthcare-announce-plans-to-build-cape-coral-hospital Proves: Regional hospital-capacity pipeline.
67. Family Health Centers of Southwest Florida, Lehigh Acres. https://fhcswfl.org/fhclocations/lehigh-acres/ Proves: A federally qualified health centre inside Lehigh Acres, real primary-care access.
68. MD Now Urgent Care, Lehigh Acres. https://www.mymdnow.com/locations/sarasota/lehigh-acres Proves: A named urgent-care location in Lehigh Acres.
69. Lehigh Acres Fire Control & Rescue District, station locations. https://www.lehighfd.com/operations/page/station-locations Proves: The station addresses behind any response-distance statement.
70. Lehigh Acres Fire Control & Rescue District, Grand Opening, Station 107. 2024. https://www.lehighfd.com/community/page/grand-opening-station-107 Proves: A dated new station.

Your Local Real Estate Experts for Ibis Landing

Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar of Domain Realty are the Southwest Florida agents behind this Ibis Landing schools, healthcare and drive-times research, working Lehigh Acres and the wider Lee County market since 2012. Reach Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar by text, call, email, the contact form, or the sixty-second Ibis Landing home valuation tool, whichever you prefer. Send us an address and we will put the proximity zone, the schools a family ranks inside it and the next application deadline in writing.

Jesse McGreevy

Jesse McGreevy is a licensed Florida sales associate with Domain Realty, licensed as Jesse Eli McGreevy P.A. under Florida licence SL3101296, and a co-founder of both McGreevy and Comisar and the Domain Realty brokerage. He serves Lehigh Acres and Lee County alongside the team’s wider Southwest Florida market, and he is Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008. Jesse is the contact for the seller side, including the question this page exists to answer for an owner: which proximity zone a specific Ibis Landing address falls in, which schools a family actually gets to rank inside it, and how a listing is timed around the District’s open enrollment window. Jesse McGreevy is a top-reviewed Ibis Landing realtor, and you can read the team’s Google reviews first.

Marc Comisar

Marc Comisar is a licensed Florida broker associate with Domain Realty, licensed as Marc J Comisar P.A. under Florida licence BK3060671, and a co-founder of McGreevy and Comisar. He serves Lehigh Acres and Lee County alongside the team’s wider Southwest Florida market, and he is the contact for buyers at Ibis Landing. The buyer-side work on this subject turns on the documents rather than the brochure: what proof of address the District accepts at a new-construction closing, which advanced programmes are reachable from this address and by what deadline, and which hospital is genuinely closest by a measured route rather than by a straight line. Reach Marc at (239) 287-5873 for a personalized buyer consultation, or read how we represent buyers in Lehigh Acres. Marc Comisar is a top-reviewed Ibis Landing realtor, and you can read the team’s Google reviews there as well.

What McGreevy and Comisar Bring to an Ibis Landing Transaction

• Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008
• 5 Star Award for Customer Satisfaction for 21 Straight Years. Only 5 out of 21k+ Licensees (Gulfshore Life Magazine)
• #1 Team in Southwest Florida since 2012
• McGreevy and Comisar and their Domain Realty Group team have sold over $2.5 Billion in Real Estate
• McGreevy and Comisar alone have over $900 million in Sales
• Nationally Recognized Top Producing Realtors
• Platinum Sales Production Award Winners

How to Reach the Team

• Jesse McGreevy: (239) 898-6072 · [email protected]
• Marc Comisar: (239) 287-5873
• Office: 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134

Jesse McGreevy (Sales Associate) and Marc Comisar (Broker Associate) are licensed Florida REALTORS® with Domain Realty; Florida real estate licensure is regulated by the Florida Real Estate Commission (FREC).

Five more ways in, all of them yours to start:

• Text or call Jesse: (239) 898-6072, text or call. Confidential conversations welcome. Ask for the school proximity zone in writing and Jesse McGreevy will answer it the same day at (239) 898-6072.
• Email: [email protected]
• Home valuation tool: What Is Your Ibis Landing Home Worth? Get a Free Valuation in 60 Seconds.
• Contact form: request a consultation with McGreevy and Comisar
• Google Business Profile: read the team’s Google reviews
• About the team: who McGreevy and Comisar are and how the team works

Send us the Ibis Landing address you are looking at, by text or by email, and we will put in writing the elementary, middle and high school proximity zones it returns, the schools a family ranks inside each, the next open enrollment and waiver deadlines, and the measured road distance to the emergency department you would actually use. Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008, and we have been answering this question in Lehigh Acres since 2012.

What Clients Say

★★★★★ “Marc’s attention to detail and deep understanding of the Southwest Florida market gave us so much confidence.” Verified Google review

★★★★★ “Marc and Jesse were amazing to work with AGAIN! We just sold our 3rd home with them and couldn’t have been happier! If we ever move again we’ll always call Jesse and Marc!” Verified Google review

★★★★★ “I highly recommend Jesse and his brokerage for any of your real estate needs. They offer ‘white glove’ service from beginning to end.” Verified Google review

McGreevy and Comisar lead Domain Realty Group, a full-service Southwest Florida real estate team. Learn more about our team at DomainRealtyGroup.com.

Companion pages on Ibis Landing

This page is one of a cluster. The community guide is the parent, and the other companions each carry a subject deep enough to stand on its own.

• Ibis Landing, Lehigh Acres: the complete community guide. Governance, the fee stack, the market by product type, the club, the golf course and the recorded documents behind all of it.
• Storm history, FEMA flood zones street by street, and what insurance actually costs at Ibis Landing. Hurricane Ian’s measured effect on this community, the flood panel and effective date for every tested location, and what the insurer’s and the regulator’s own filings show.
• What is being built near Ibis Landing. In production; we will link it here as it goes live.
• Ibis Landing home types: the condominiums, villas and single-family homes. In production; we will link it here as it goes live.

Market data from Southwest Florida MLS, pulled 17 September 2026. School, healthcare and distance facts on this page are cited to the agency that issued them and to the date each record was read; school assignment and proximity zones are set by the School District of Lee County and change from year to year, so confirm any assignment with the District before it drives a decision. Brokered by Domain Realty. Jesse McGreevy, FL Lic. SL3101296 · Marc Comisar, FL Lic. BK3060671.