Daytona Middle School, Lake Havasu City AZ

Original Research by School Decision on Daytona Middle School

Daytona Middle School is a closed campus. The school’s lifecycle status is listed as inactive, which means it is no longer operating as a regular public school. Any information about its performance or programs comes from a single past school year and does not reflect a current educational option for families. A parent or resident looking at this school today should understand that there is no active school to enroll in, and no current data on enrollment, demographics, staffing, or curriculum to evaluate.

What the record does show is one snapshot of academic results from the 2009-2010 school year, when Daytona Middle School was still open and serving students in grades six through eight as a regular public school within the Lake Havasu Unified District. That year, the school administered the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) to its students. In English language arts, the proficiency rates across all three grades were high, with sixth graders showing the strongest performance and eighth graders close behind. In math, proficiency rates were lower, with a clear step down from English results, and the eighth-grade math figure was the weakest of the group. Science was tested only in eighth grade and landed between the math and English results. At the time, the school’s overall proficiency index placed it in the top quartile relative to other schools in Mohave County. These numbers are now more than a decade and a half old, and they represent a performance picture that may have no bearing on what a new school would achieve today.

Daytona Middle School was part of the Lake Havasu Unified District, which operates in Lake Havasu City, a master-planned community on the Colorado River founded as a recreational and retirement destination. The city’s tourism economy is built around the London Bridge, the lake, and annual events, and its employment base leans heavily on education, health care, retail, and hospitality. The district itself has introduced a classical education option at one of its elementary schools in recent years, but the broader district context does not include any plan to reopen or replace Daytona Middle School.

Because the school is inactive, there is no civil rights data, no chronic absenteeism rate, no graduation rate, and no information about class sizes or course access. These gaps reflect the fact that the building is not currently serving students. A family researching schools in Lake Havasu City would need to look at the district’s active middle school options rather than this one. The available data cannot tell a parent what this school would be like today because it does not exist as a functioning campus.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 666%

School 66% · District 42% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

Grade 765%

School 65% · District 24% · ▲ 41 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 35 pts above county median

Grade 861%

School 61% · District 25% · ▲ 36 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 692%

School 92% · District 51% · ▲ 41 pts above district

▲ 49 pts above state median · ▲ 47 pts above county median

Grade 787%

School 87% · District 41% · ▲ 46 pts above district

▲ 44 pts above state median · ▲ 35 pts above county median

Grade 883%

School 83% · District 37% · ▲ 46 pts above district

▲ 43 pts above state median · ▲ 42 pts above county median

Science

Grade 869%

School 69% · District 34% · ▲ 35 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

This schoolLake Havasu Unified District (4368), same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.