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Enrollment
589
Elementary
DISTRICT 596 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLLIER·NCES 120033004495
PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5322 TEXAS AVE, NAPLES, FL 34113 · (239) 377-8900 · Collier County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL589 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of Florida public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
357 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 31 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 111 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
50.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.2pp since 2023
Math
64.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.5% | 64.9% |
| 2023-24 | 45.3% | 52.9% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (52.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 589 | 60.6% | 52.9% |
| VENTURA ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 577 | 61.5% | 41.9% |
| MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 564 | 61.0% | 55.4% |
| GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CUTLER BAY | 544 | 61.2% | 57.4% |
| MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 518 | 63.7% | 45.4% |
| AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOMESTEAD | 669 | 63.2% | 66.5% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Collier County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.9% | #1,182 of 2,136 | #28 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.9% | #876 of 2,149 ▲ 372 | #21 of 35 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #1,271 of 2,149 ▲ 107 | #25 of 35 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 589 | #1,065 of 2,267 | #17 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #389 of 2,077 | #21 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.6% | #1,699 of 2,108 | #30 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.6% | #888 of 2,188 | #13 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.3% | #295 of 1,374 | #5 of 23 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
589
+17 (+3%) vs 2020
-31% since 2010-11, when it was 858
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 12.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 589 | 41.5 | 14.2:1 | 61% (357) |
| 2023-24 | 604 | 39.8 | 15.2:1 | 74% (446) |
| 2022-23 | 608 | 38.1 | 16.0:1 | 70% (425) |
| 2020-21 | 572 | 46 | 12.4:1 | 93% (531) |
| 2017-18 | 799 | 55 | 14.5:1 | 97% (775) |
| 2015-16 | 769 | 54 | 14.2:1 | 97% (743) |
| 2010-11 | 858 | 59 | 14.5:1 | 96% (822) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary school, is located in NAPLES, Florida. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 589 students.
The district, COLLIER, has 48,252 students enrolled across 69 schools.
PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment is 76% Hispanic. Other groups make up 20% Black and 3% White. County-wide, 28% of Collier County residents are Hispanic. PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 39%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Staffing totals 41.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.2:1. That ratio is under the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 61%. The average for public schools in Collier County is 48%.
PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 45% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in Florida is predicted to score 50.8%. PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 52.9%, 2.1 points above that line.
Across Collier County, median household income is about $90,045, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. The public schools of Collier County number 75 and enroll about 48,252.
The closest other public school is LELY HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is behind the 55.1% nearby average, ranking 7th of 8.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 3%, from 572 to 589. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.4:1 in 2020-21, and 14.2:1 in 2024-25.
Community posts for PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Collier County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
398,291
Census ACS
Median income
$90,045
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
48,252 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in COLLIER
- PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,054 students
- IMMOKALEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,990 students
- GOLDEN GATE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,867 students
- GULF COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,714 students
- NAPLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,535 students
- MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMYCombined · 1,509 students
Other schools in NAPLES
- PALMETTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,054 students
- GOLDEN GATE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,867 students
- GULF COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,714 students
- NAPLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,535 students
- MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMYCombined · 1,509 students
- AUBREY ROGERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,496 students
Other Parkside Elementary schools
26 other US public schools in 19 states are named Parkside Elementary. PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 7th largest of the 27.
- PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCORAL SPRINGS, FL · 713 students
- Parkside ElementaryFredericksburg, VA · 946 students
- Parkside Elementary SchoolGEORGETOWN, TX · 807 students
- Parkside Elementary SchoolColumbus, IN · 733 students
- Parkside ElementaryMorrisville, NC · 730 students
Nearby schools
- LELY HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,475
- LELY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 499
- AVALON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 363
- MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 564
- MANATEE MIDDLE SCHOOL3.5 mi · 781
- CALUSA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.3 mi · 670
Frequently asked questions
About PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 589 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
How diverse is PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 3% White, 76% Hispanic, 20% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by COLLIER in Collier County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.