Osceola Elementary School, Naples FL

Original Research by School Decision on Osceola Elementary School

Osceola Elementary sits on a residential trail in north Naples, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in Collier County Public Schools. The school is mid-sized for its grade band, with a broad spread of students across all grade levels from pre-K through fifth.

The student body is split roughly evenly between Hispanic and white students, with smaller shares of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places Osceola in a relatively lower-need tier compared to many Florida elementary schools, though still a meaningful portion of families. Data on English learner counts and special education identification rates were not reported in the available data.

On Florida's FAST assessments, the school's academic results are genuinely strong, particularly in the earlier grades. Third-grade math proficiency is well above the majority of schools statewide, and third-grade ELA is solid. Performance dips in fourth and fifth grade across both math and ELA, which is a pattern worth asking the school about, whether it reflects test difficulty scaling, cohort differences, or something else. Fifth-grade science results, measured on the Florida Statewide Science Assessment, fall in the same range as fifth-grade ELA and math, meaning roughly two in three fifth graders are testing at proficiency. None of these figures represent cause for alarm at an elementary level, but the gap between third and fifth grade is real and a parent with a child entering the upper grades may want to explore how the school supports students through that stretch.

Trend data across years was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these patterns are stable, improving, or declining.

The Collier County district context is worth knowing. Voters renewed a tax-neutral referendum in late 2024 that redirects a portion of capital funding toward operations, sustaining teacher pay, arts, and athletics through the end of the decade without a tax increase. The district also shifted to an explicit, structured phonics program for kindergarten through second grade starting in the 2023-24 school year, a science-of-reading approach that affects how the youngest students at Osceola are taught to read. A new high school opened in north Naples in 2023 with career academies in engineering, health sciences, technology, entrepreneurship, and law, which is the pathway Osceola's current students would eventually reach.

Osceola is not a charter or magnet school. Its Title I status was not reported in the available data.

The housing market surrounding the school reflects Naples broadly. Home values in the zip code are substantially above the Florida state median and well above national figures, and they have edged down modestly over the past year. Rents are elevated, and affordability is a real constraint: the estimated rent-to-income burden sits well above what financial planners typically consider sustainable. For families already living in the area, this context is familiar. For those deciding whether to relocate, the trade-off between property costs and school quality is worth weighing carefully.

Naples itself is a Gulf-coast city with a distinctive character. Publicly reported sources describe the historic Old Naples district as low-rise, walkable in a village-scaled way, with shaded streets, outdoor dining, and beach access off the pier. Cultural life includes Artis-Naples, the von Liebig Art Center, and Gulfshore Playhouse, along with Cambier Park's free weekly concert series. The city's commercial and residential areas spread inland from the historic core, and Osceola's north Naples location sits within that more residential, master-planned stretch rather than in the historic downtown.

Osceola fits a family looking for a neighborhood public elementary in a well-resourced coastal community with test results that run ahead of Florida norms, particularly in the early grades.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 382%

School 82% · District 68% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 477%

School 77% · District 71% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 568%

School 68% · District 70% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 376%

School 76% · District 62% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 473%

School 73% · District 62% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 568%

School 68% · District 62% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Science

Grade 567%

School 67% · District 64% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

This schoolCOLLIER, 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income60%Higher-income94%33 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income58%Higher-income84%26 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income53%Higher-income80%27 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income70%Higher-income96%26 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income68%Higher-income84%16 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income57%Higher-income77%20 pp gap