TOMMIE BARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in MARCO ISLAND, Florida, TOMMIE BARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small primary school, run under COLLIER. It enrolls 474 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so TOMMIE BARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 22% below that benchmark.

COLLIER comprises 69 schools with combined enrollment of 48,252 students; TOMMIE BARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, TOMMIE BARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 29% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, TOMMIE BARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at TOMMIE BARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Collier County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, TOMMIE BARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 63.1%; actual is 80.4%, +17.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, Collier County reports that median household income runs about $90,045, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. TOMMIE BARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 75 public schools in Collier County (combined enrollment of about 48,252 students).

The closest other public school is MARCO ISLAND CHARTER MIDDLE, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, TOMMIE BARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.8%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 551 students in 2018 compared to 474 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 33% to 29%. Class-load math has widened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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