BEACHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in DAYTONA BEACH, Florida, BEACHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school, part of VOLUSIA. It caters to 618 students across grades pre-K through 5.

VOLUSIA comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 61,765 students; BEACHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, BEACHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 22% Black, 18% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Volusia County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, BEACHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting BEACHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Volusia County's rate of about 53%.

After controlling for student poverty, BEACHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.2%, the actual is 54.1%, a residual of +8.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Volusia County) records that median household income runs about $70,044, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Volusia County runs 90 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students), of which BEACHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

SEABREEZE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BEACHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BEACHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.1%.

BEACHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 54%: 401 students in 2018 compared to 618 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 48% across the same window.

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