The top reported proficiency rate is 63% in Math. The lowest is 46% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Mike Davis Elementary School
Mike Davis Elementary sits on Magnolia Pond Drive in Naples, serving children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within Collier County Public Schools. Its location in the 34116 zip code places it inland from the Gulf-coast downtown, in the residential areas that extend east of Old Naples rather than in the historic walkable core that defines the city's public face.
The school's student body is predominantly Hispanic, with Black students making up a meaningful secondary share and white students a much smaller one. A very large share of families qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, making this one of the higher-need elementary campuses in the county by that measure. Data on English learner rates and students with IEPs were not available in the records reviewed, so a parent wanting to understand language support services or special education capacity would want to ask the school directly.
On Florida's FAST assessments, the picture is mixed and worth understanding grade by grade. In math, third graders performed well, with most students reaching proficiency, a meaningful result. That rate drops noticeably in fourth grade and again in fifth grade, where roughly half of students are proficient. ELA tells a more challenging story across all three tested grades: third grade proficiency is below half, fourth grade is slightly better, and fifth grade reaches just above half. On the fifth-grade science assessment, a majority of students scored as proficient, which is the strongest relative position in the ELA data set. Taken together, math outcomes start strong and soften in upper elementary; reading performance is below where most parents would hope across the board. A parent may want to ask the school about its specific literacy interventions, especially given that the district itself publicly acknowledged that a substantial portion of older students were not reading at grade level, prompting a districtwide shift to structured phonics instruction beginning in 2023-24. That curriculum change is now in its second or third year and would affect the early grades at Mike Davis directly.
No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether results are improving, holding, or declining. The comparison framework was also limited because Collier County operates as a single school district, leaving no meaningful peer district comparison to draw.
At the district level, a few things matter for context. Voters in late 2024 renewed a tax-neutral referendum that redirects existing mill funding toward operating costs, sustaining teacher pay and programs like arts and athletics through 2029 without a tax increase. That financial continuity is a real stabilizer for families weighing long-term enrollment. The district also opened a new high school in North Naples in 2023, built debt-free, with career academies in fields like engineering, health sciences, and information technology. A child entering kindergarten at Mike Davis today would be part of the cohort that eventually feeds into that expanded high school pipeline.
The housing market around the school reflects Naples broadly: home values in the school's zip code are well above both the state and national medians, and they have softened modestly over the past year. Rents are also high relative to typical household income, with rental costs consuming a substantial share of income by standard affordability measures. The area is not an entry-level housing market by any conventional measure.
Naples itself, publicly reported as a Gulf-coast city with a distinctive mix of upscale neighborhoods and a walkable historic downtown, has civic anchors like Cambier Park, the von Liebig Art Center, Gulfshore Playhouse, and the Naples Pier that serve the broader community. The school's inland location means those downtown amenities are present in the city but not immediately walkable from the Magnolia Pond Drive campus.
No program-specific offerings, staffing ratios, chronic absenteeism data, or discipline records were available for Mike Davis. A parent with questions about enrichment, after-school programming, or support structures would be better served asking the school directly than relying on what the available data shows.
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