School District of Lee County Competitors

Located just south of Fort Myers and north of Naples on the Southwest Florida coast, Florida Gulf Coast University encompasses 800 acres on which academic buildings, residence halls and athletics facilities share space with wetlands, pinewoods and boardwalks in a natural setting. FGCU serves 16,000 students and offers more than 95 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. It emphasizes a university-wide commitment to sustainability and service learning, with students having completed more than 5 million hours of service since the university opened in 1997. With six colleges, FGCU is committed to serving Southwest Florida with academic programs designed to meet the workforce demands of the five-county region.

The District School Board of Collier County, also known as Collier County Public Schools, is a school district in Collier County, Florida. The district has schools placed in four cities throughout the county: Everglades City, Immokalee, Marco Island and Naples. The district employees 2,900 teachers, 47% with advanced degrees. The School District of Collier County includes 50 schools, along with two charter schools, and including two postsecondary technical schools educating adult or dually-enrolled high school students. For the 2009-2010 school year, Collier County Public Schools received a school district grade of “A” from the Florida Department of Education – its second “A” in a row. Before that, the District had maintained a “B” grade since 2004, when district grades were first given.

The Mission of Royal Palm Academy is to provide an education of rich academics with Catholic content while teaching the mind, educating the heart, and forming the character of tomorrow’s leaders. Royal Palm Academy believes that true education not only involves the acquisition of knowledge, but also the development and refinement of key intellectual abilities including analyzing, synthesizing, relating, and judging. We help each student to reach his or her full potential by nurturing the strengths, interests, and personalities of each student to help them achieve high academic standards. Delivering an advanced and challenging curriculum that is rich in content teaches effective study skills and habits and encourages critical thinking and reflection as well as logical order of thought and clarity of expression. Students also gain confidence and skills in public speaking and writing. Technology supports learning objectives. Augmenting the curriculum is a strong initiation to a second language for all students, beginning in Pre-K. We address a student’s strengths and weaknesses with personal attention. We encourage the discovery and pursuit of talents through instruction in a foreign language, art, music, physical education and technology. Working with parents, our teachers provide individualized instruction and direction. RPA is a Pre-K 3 - 8th Grade Catholic school fully affiliated with the Diocese of Venice