Collier Charter Academy, Naples FL

Original Research by School Decision on Collier Charter Academy

Collier Charter Academy is a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade charter school sitting on Immokalee Road in Naples, Florida, on the inland side of Collier County. It serves a mid-sized enrollment for its grade band, with students spread fairly evenly across the elementary years and a noticeably smaller cohort by eighth grade. The student body is majority Hispanic, with a substantial share of white students, and nearly half of the enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, making it a genuinely mixed-income school. IEP and English-learner rates were not available in the data.

On academic performance, the picture is uneven and worth examining closely. Florida FAST results from the most recent school year show strong third-grade math proficiency, which is a real bright spot. Science scores at both the fifth- and eighth-grade levels are solid and sit in a range parents can feel good about. But math proficiency drops sharply in fourth and fifth grade before recovering somewhat in sixth and seventh, then falls again in eighth grade. ELA proficiency is more consistent across grades, generally landing in the mid-to-upper half of the scale, with fifth grade performing the best among ELA grades. The pattern in math, particularly that drop in the intermediate elementary grades, is the kind of thing a parent may want to ask the school about directly. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether results are improving or holding steady over time.

Collier County has only one district in the comparison set, so ranking within the county is not meaningful here, and the comparison data was flagged accordingly.

As a charter school, Collier Charter Academy operates under a charter from the Collier County Public Schools district, which has recently made some moves relevant to any parent thinking about the broader educational context. The district adopted an explicit, structured phonics program for early elementary grades starting in 2023-24, a science-of-reading shift that affects how reading is taught to young children. Whether Collier Charter Academy has adopted the same approach is not stated in the available data, so parents of early readers may want to ask. The district also opened a new North Naples high school with career academy pathways, which matters more for families thinking about the secondary years that follow eighth grade.

The school's address on Immokalee Road places it in the inland, northern part of the Naples area, well away from the coastal and downtown neighborhoods that most people picture when they hear "Naples." Publicly reported descriptions of Naples as a whole describe a Gulf-coast city anchored by the walkable historic core of Old Naples, with its concentration of shopping, galleries, and dining along Fifth Avenue South and Third Street South. Cultural venues include Artis-Naples, Gulfshore Playhouse, and the von Liebig Art Center. The broader area is a mix of master-planned inland communities and upscale coastal neighborhoods. The housing market near the school reflects the county's overall character: home values are well above both the Florida and national medians, with only a modest year-over-year softening. Rents are high relative to income by national standards, with the rent-to-income ratio running substantially above what is typically considered affordable. Growth data for the specific corridor around Immokalee Road was not gathered before the research budget ran out, though the opening of a new high school to serve North Naples population growth suggests the broader area is absorbing new residents.

Program-specific offerings for Collier Charter Academy were not available in the data, so it is not possible to describe any enrichment, elective, or extracurricular programming with confidence. A parent considering the school would benefit from asking the school directly what programs exist beyond the core curriculum, especially for students entering the middle grades.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 372%

School 72% · District 68% · ▲ 4 pts above district

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

Grade 432%

School 32% · District 71% · ▼ 39 pts below district

▼ 29 pts below state median · ▼ 39 pts below county median

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 70% · ▼ 37 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 36 pts below county median

Grade 661%

School 61% · District 73% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 768%

School 68% · District 80% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 847%

School 47% · District 53% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 355%

School 55% · District 62% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 442%

School 42% · District 62% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 561%

School 61% · District 62%

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 657%

School 57% · District 63% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 756%

School 56% · District 62% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 858%

School 58% · District 60% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Science

Grade 566%

School 66% · District 64% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 864%

School 64% · District 55% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 7 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-income56%Higher-income54%2 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income42%Higher-income43%1 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income58%Higher-income64%6 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income63%Higher-income50%12 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income48%Higher-income65%17 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income54%Higher-income65%11 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income72%Higher-income71%1 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income32%Higher-income32%0 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income36%Higher-income29%7 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income67%Higher-income55%12 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income65%Higher-income71%7 pp gap