Sanibel School Ranked Top in the StateJanuary 2012, Sanibel Island: Looking for another reason to move to Sanibel Island? The Sanibel School was recently ranked as the top public school in the entire state of Florida for Elementary and Middle School education.

The state Department of Education posted its best-to-worst ranking of Florida’s 3,078 public schools, and the Sanibel Island school was the only Lee and Collier County institution to get a top-10 ranking. Sanibel was the top-ranked combination school for elementary and middle school students. The state ranked the schools based on the number of school grade points they received for the 2010-11 school year as part of the state’s school grading formula.