PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 5322 TEXAS AVE, in NAPLES, Florida, PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized primary school that hosts 589 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by COLLIER.

Across the 69 schools in COLLIER (48,252 students total), PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%; the rest looks like 20% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Collier County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Collier County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 52.9%, a residual of +2.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Collier County indicate median household income runs about $90,045, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Collier County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,252 students), PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LELY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 55.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 26%, going from 799 students in 2018 to 589 in 2025.

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