[2] Students who wished to attend high school were bused to Fort Myers, and later to Immokalee, to get an education.

In 1959, George Washington Carver High School was opened with two teachers.

In 1968 the black students were reassigned to white schools and Carver was closed.

[3][4][5] In February 2022, the school district placed warning labels on over 100 books in its libraries declaring them as "unsuitable for students" in response to a report issued by a conservative group.

[6] The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, noted that the labels prevented teachers from exercising their "responsibility to decide what content is age-appropriate when they choose what to teach in class.