The top reported proficiency rate is 92% in Math. The lowest is 73% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Ecollier Academy
eCollier Academy sits on Santa Barbara Boulevard in Naples, Florida, and carries a formal grade span from kindergarten through twelfth grade. In practice, the enrollment data tells a different story: the school currently serves only two students, one in tenth grade and one in twelfth. That is not a rounding artifact or a data lag. The tested-grade results in the state assessment data come from a cohort of roughly a dozen students, suggesting the school may have been somewhat larger in prior years, but the current enrollment picture is exceptionally small by any measure.
Given that, almost every conventional lens a parent would apply simply does not fit here. There is no meaningful peer environment in the traditional sense, no athletic program context, no graduation cohort to evaluate statistically, and no demographic profile worth characterizing beyond noting that the two enrolled students represent one Hispanic and one white student. Free-and-reduced-price lunch data was not reported. Civil rights data was absent. No program offerings were listed. The school is a regular public school, not a charter, and sits within the Collier County district.
State assessment results were reported for seventh and eighth grade students from a prior cohort. In math at the seventh-grade level, performance was strong, with nearly all tested students reaching proficiency on Florida's FAST assessment. ELA results were also strong at seventh grade and solid at eighth grade, where roughly three-quarters of students tested at proficiency. Eighth-grade science results were similarly in the solid-to-strong range. These results are worth noting, but they come from a very small number of students, so they reflect a specific cohort rather than a pattern a parent can reliably project forward. Trend data was not available.
The comparison framework for Collier County's districts is limited here because there is only one district in the county, so no meaningful peer-district positioning is possible for this school.
Naples itself is a Gulf-coast city with a well-defined downtown core along Fifth Avenue South and Third Street South in Old Naples, publicly reported as a walkable, low-rise area with shaded sidewalks, outdoor dining, galleries, and Gulf beach access. Civic anchors include Cambier Park, the von Liebig Art Center, Gulfshore Playhouse, and the Naples Pier. The housing market in the zip code surrounding the school carries a median home value that runs modestly below the Florida state benchmark, though prices have softened year-over-year. Rents in the area consume a substantial share of a median income, making affordability a genuine consideration. The Collier district recently passed a tax-neutral referendum that shifts millage from capital to operating funds to sustain teacher pay, arts, and athletics through the late 2020s, and it opened a new high school in North Naples in 2023 with career academies in engineering, health sciences, IT, entrepreneurship, and law. The district also adopted a structured phonics curriculum for early grades starting in the 2023-24 school year.
What eCollier Academy is, in operational terms, is unclear from the available data. Schools this small serving grades K through 12 sometimes function as alternative placements, credit-recovery programs, homebound-instruction sites, or other specialized settings that fall outside the standard school comparison framework. The data does not state that explicitly, and a parent should ask the school directly what its enrollment model is, who it is designed to serve, and how the K-12 grade span functions with the current student count. The state results are reported and are not weak, but they describe a small prior cohort rather than a living school community in the conventional sense.
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