LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized primary school in IMMOKALEE, Florida, overseen by COLLIER, serves 717 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

COLLIER comprises 69 schools with combined enrollment of 48,252 students; LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%; the rest breaks down as 23% Black, 4% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 74% of students at LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Collier County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.3%, the actual is 54.4%, a residual of +10.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Collier County indicate median household earnings sit near $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), LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is EDEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAKE TRAFFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 55.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 707 students in 2018 compared to 717 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 79% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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