NAPLES CLASSICAL ACADEMY

NAPLES CLASSICAL ACADEMY, a sprawling all-grades campus in NAPLES, Florida, overseen by COLLIER, serves 846 students, covering grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 140% above the state mean of about 353.

NAPLES CLASSICAL ACADEMY is one of 69 schools operated by COLLIER, a district that works with 48,252 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NAPLES CLASSICAL ACADEMY records that 55% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 65% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Collier County's rate of about 48%.

After controlling for student poverty, NAPLES CLASSICAL ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.3%; this one delivers 67.6%.

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%. In all, Collier County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,252 students), of which NAPLES CLASSICAL ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: OAKRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NAPLES CLASSICAL ACADEMY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 69.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting. As a public charter, NAPLES CLASSICAL ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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