BURNS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL

BURNS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL, a sizable K-12 campus in OAK HILL, Florida, one of the schools within VOLUSIA, hosts 1,099 students, covering grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 353 students per school, that is 211% above typical.

VOLUSIA comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 61,765 students; BURNS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, BURNS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest breaks down as 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 71% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BURNS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL has 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting BURNS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 36% of students at BURNS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Volusia County (around 53%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BURNS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.3%, the actual is 63.8%, a residual of +0.5 points.

In the area at large, Volusia County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,044 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 BURNS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

INDIAN RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, BURNS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. BURNS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BURNS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL has increased 144%, going from 451 students in 2018 to 1,099 in 2025.

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