LAVERN GAYNOR ELEMENTARY

LAVERN GAYNOR ELEMENTARY operates as a tight-knit elementary school in NAPLES, Florida, part of COLLIER. Current enrollment sits at 366 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 39% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within COLLIER, which oversees 69 schools and 48,252 students, LAVERN GAYNOR ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, LAVERN GAYNOR ELEMENTARY logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 17% Black, 8% White. By comparison, Collier County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, LAVERN GAYNOR ELEMENTARY records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting LAVERN GAYNOR ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 58% 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%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAVERN GAYNOR ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.0%, the actual is 54.3%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Collier County put the typical household earns roughly $90,045 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Collier County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,252 students), of which LAVERN GAYNOR ELEMENTARY is one.

GOLDEN TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAVERN GAYNOR ELEMENTARY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.5%.

LAVERN GAYNOR ELEMENTARY operates from a commuter-belt location.

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