BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 3250 GOLDEN GATE BLVD W, in NAPLES, Florida, BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school that teaches 796 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within COLLIER. Enrollment runs roughly 32% larger than the state mean of about 604.

Across the 69 schools in COLLIER (48,252 students total), BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 39% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Collier County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Collier County indicate median household income runs about $90,045, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Collier County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,252 students), of which BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

OAKRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 64.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BIG CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 13%, going from 915 students in 2018 to 796 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 44% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.