PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL

PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL operates as a sizable four-year high school in NAPLES, Florida, one of the schools within COLLIER. Current enrollment sits at 2,054 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 98% bigger than the state mean of about 1,035.

PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 69 schools operated by COLLIER, a district that educates 48,252 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL records that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 25% White, 10% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL lists 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Collier County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,045, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Collier County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,252 students), PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CORKSCREW MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 5%: 1,949 students in 2018 compared to 2,054 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 44% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 25.6:1 today.

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