SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a low-enrollment elementary campus in NAPLES, Florida, SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 470 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by COLLIER. That puts it 22% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

COLLIER runs 69 schools in total, collectively educating 48,252 students. SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 14% White, 13% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 59% of students at SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Collier County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.4%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Collier County indicate median household income runs about $90,045, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Collier County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,252 students), SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

COLLIER JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 59.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 505 students in 2018 compared to 470 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 55% to 69%.

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