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West Lee Middle School located in Sanford, North Carolina and has an enrollment of 1076 students. This is about 25% over optimal enrollment. To compensate for the large enrollment, Lee County has invested in mobile units. These units serve as classrooms. West Lee is a suburban school in Lee County, North Carolina.

West Lee's ethnic population is 50% white, 30% black, 19% Latino, and 1% other. The socio-economic level ranges from poverty to high middle class.The free and reduced lunch program serves 42% of the students. Seventy-six percent of the faculty are fully licensed.

The faculty and administrators use technology on a daily basis. Most daily correspondence is through email. Parents are encouraged to share their email addresses with their child's teacher to open communication. West Lee has 3 computer labs, 1 mobile computer lab, and 3 technology classrooms. Teachers are encouraged to utilize the computer labs as often as possible. This leads to computer labs often full with technology lessons.

The 8th grade computer test showed great growth for the year 2006-2007 with 93% of the 8th graders passing the test. This is almost a 20% increase from the 2005-2006 school year.

West Lee's classrooms are 100% internet connected. The ratio of students to computers is 3.37 to 1. This has aided West Lee in their technology performance.

Teachers and students at West Lee use tools such as laptop computers, desktop computers, LCD projectors, overhead projectors, SmartBoards, the Internet, United Streaming videos, CD's, DVD's, graphing calculators, mobile computer labs, and various assistive technologies for special needs students.

Technology plays an increasingly important role as West Lee strives toward high student performance. Teachers utilize technology to assess students, analyze data, provide effective classroom instruction, and offer necessary supplementary programs.