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Enrollment
796
Elementary
DISTRICT 596 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLLIER·NCES 120033002496
BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3250 GOLDEN GATE BLVD W, NAPLES, FL 34120 · (239) 377-6300 · Collier County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL796 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of Florida public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
428 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 123 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 137 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 122 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 151 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 127 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 135 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (123) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (135).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
63.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.4pp since 2023
Math
69.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +3.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 69.4% |
| 2023-24 | 61.6% | 65.8% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (66.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 796 | 53.8% | 66.4% |
| LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SAINT CLOUD | 752 | 53.7% | 53.6% |
| TIMBERCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DELTONA | 730 | 52.9% | 63.1% |
| RIVER HALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALVA | 913 | 50.2% | 46.6% |
| PATRIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAPE CORAL | 954 | 52.1% | 52.8% |
| CALOOSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAPE CORAL | 968 | 52.7% | 58.0% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Collier County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.4% | #587 of 2,136 | #11 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.4% | #669 of 2,149 ▲ 42 | #17 of 35 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #705 of 2,149 ▼ 45 | #11 of 35 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 796 | #473 of 2,267 | #5 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #264 of 2,077 | #13 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.6% | #853 of 2,108 | #6 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.8% | #1,138 of 2,188 | #20 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.0% | #794 of 1,374 | #12 of 23 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
796
+14 (+2%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 876
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 14.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 796 | 58 | 13.7:1 | 54% (428) |
| 2023-24 | 765 | 51.8 | 14.8:1 | 47% (356) |
| 2022-23 | 742 | 52.2 | 14.2:1 | 47% (350) |
| 2020-21 | 782 | 56 | 14.0:1 | 65% (508) |
| 2017-18 | 915 | 62 | 14.8:1 | 61% (554) |
| 2015-16 | 851 | 56 | 15.2:1 | 58% (493) |
| 2010-11 | 920 | 64 | 14.4:1 | 55% (507) |
| 2000-01 | 938 | 51 | 18.4:1 | 22% (207) |
| 1990-91 | 876 | 48 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school, is located in NAPLES, Florida. It enrolls 796 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. It has 32% more students than the average for elementary schools in Florida (about 604).
Besides BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, COLLIER runs 68 other schools. The district enrolls 48,252 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic, with 48% of students. Enrollment also includes 39% White, 7% Black, and 4% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 20 points above the 28% share among Collier County residents. The diversity index for BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 61%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1, with 58 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 54% at BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
On the allk12 Grade, BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 80% of Florida public elementary schools.
In Florida, BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 66.4% actual against a predicted 54.2%.
American Community Survey estimates for Collier County show that median household income comes to about $90,045, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Collier County counts 75 public schools with about 48,252 students.
OAKRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 2.8 miles from BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 64.7% proficiency; BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 66.4%.
BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment went from 782 in 2020-21 to 796 in 2024-25, a change of 14 students.
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Collier County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
398,291
Census ACS
Median income
$90,045
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
48,252 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in COLLIER
- PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,054 students
- IMMOKALEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,990 students
- GOLDEN GATE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,867 students
- GULF COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,714 students
- NAPLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,535 students
- MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMYCombined · 1,509 students
Other schools in NAPLES
- PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,054 students
- GOLDEN GATE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,867 students
- GULF COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,714 students
- NAPLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,535 students
- MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMYCombined · 1,509 students
- AUBREY ROGERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,496 students
Nearby schools
- OAKRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL2.8 mi · 1,172
- NAPLES CLASSICAL ACADEMY3.1 mi · 846
- GOLDEN GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.3 mi · 528
- HERBERT CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 283
- GULF COAST HIGH SCHOOL3.7 mi · 1,714
- LAUREL OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.7 mi · 1,069
Frequently asked questions
About BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 796 students in grades PK-05.
Is BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 58 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1.
What is the student diversity at BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 39% White, 48% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of COLLIER.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.