GOLDEN GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 4911 20TH PL SW, in NAPLES, Florida, GOLDEN GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized K-5 school that works with 528 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within COLLIER.

GOLDEN GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 69 schools operated by COLLIER, a district that serves 48,252 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GOLDEN GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Black, 7% White. By comparison, Collier County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, GOLDEN GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GOLDEN GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.0%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of -0.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Collier County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,045 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Collier County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,252 students), GOLDEN GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HERBERT CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GOLDEN GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 48.6%.

GOLDEN GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. GOLDEN GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 43% since 2018, when it stood at 920 (now 528). The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 79% to 74% over that span.

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