EVERGLADES CITY SCHOOL

Set in EVERGLADES CITY, Florida, EVERGLADES CITY SCHOOL is a minimally staffed multi-level school, run under COLLIER. It hosts 136 students across grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 61% smaller than the state mean of about 353.

EVERGLADES CITY SCHOOL is one of 69 schools operated by COLLIER, a district that works with 48,252 students overall.

On the student-mix side, EVERGLADES CITY SCHOOL logs that 65% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 26% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Collier County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EVERGLADES CITY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.1%, the actual is 61.2%, a residual of +12.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Collier County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,045 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Collier County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,252 students), EVERGLADES CITY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MARCO ISLAND ACADEMY, around 18.8 miles off. On composite proficiency, EVERGLADES CITY SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 64.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EVERGLADES CITY SCHOOL has fell 28%, going from 188 students in 2018 to 136 in 2025.

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