VETERANS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

VETERANS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a reasonably sized K-5 school in NAPLES, Florida, one of the schools within COLLIER, educates 721 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

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

On demographics, VETERANS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 66%; the rest reads as 25% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Collier County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 29% of students at VETERANS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Collier County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, VETERANS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 66.5%; VETERANS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 81.9%, +15.4 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Collier County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $90,045 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Collier County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,252 students), VETERANS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

NORTH NAPLES MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VETERANS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, VETERANS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 60.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at VETERANS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 13%, going from 831 students in 2018 to 721 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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