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BARRON COLLIER HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 21 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BARRON COLLIER HIGH SCHOOL
As an average-sized high school in NAPLES, Florida, BARRON COLLIER HIGH SCHOOL instructs 1,472 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by COLLIER. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so BARRON COLLIER HIGH SCHOOL sits 42% bigger than that benchmark.
Within COLLIER, which oversees 69 schools and 48,252 students, BARRON COLLIER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, BARRON COLLIER HIGH SCHOOL logs that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 36% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Collier County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BARRON COLLIER HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.5%; this one delivers 71.0%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Collier County indicate median household income runs about $90,045, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Collier County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,252 students), BARRON COLLIER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BARRON COLLIER HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 71.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 1,720 students in 2018 compared to 1,472 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 27% to 36% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 today.
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