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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
533
Elementary
DISTRICT 552 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VOLUSIA·NCES 120192001979
CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
921 TOURNAMENT DR, DAYTONA BEACH, FL 32124 · (386) 274-6500 · Volusia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL533 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
342 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (91).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
47.6%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.8pp since 2023
Math
57.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.6% | 57.6% |
| 2023-24 | 50.4% | 54.9% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (52.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 533 | 64.2% | 52.1% |
| FUGUITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LARGO | 464 | 65.7% | 52.9% |
| RIDGECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LARGO | 438 | 58.0% | 61.1% |
| SUN 'N LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SEBRING | 588 | 62.9% | 63.0% |
| VERO BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VERO BEACH | 593 | 68.3% | 56.0% |
| SAWGRASS LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST PETERSBURG | 573 | 59.2% | 59.9% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Volusia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.1% | #1,227 of 2,136 | #31 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #1,209 of 2,149 ▼ 50 | #27 of 48 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.6% | #1,419 of 2,149 ▼ 268 | #37 of 48 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 533 | #1,287 of 2,267 | #30 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #993 of 2,077 | #33 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.7% | #98 of 2,108 | #1 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.2% | #729 of 2,188 | #14 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.2% | #844 of 1,374 | #15 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
533
+67 (+14%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 655
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 10.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 533 | 34 | 15.7:1 | 64% (342) |
| 2023-24 | 488 | 33 | 14.8:1 | 68% (333) |
| 2022-23 | 584 | 37 | 15.8:1 | 70% (408) |
| 2020-21 | 466 | 43 | 10.8:1 | 71% (329) |
| 2017-18 | 607 | 54 | 11.2:1 | 80% (487) |
| 2015-16 | 586 | 55 | 10.7:1 | 87% (508) |
| 2010-11 | 491 | 40 | 12.3:1 | 82% (403) |
| 2000-01 | 588 | 45 | 13.1:1 | 78% (461) |
| 1990-91 | 655 | 43 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In DAYTONA BEACH, Florida, part of Volusia County, CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school. A federal count lists 533 students at the school, in pre-K through 5.
CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls under VOLUSIA, which has 87 schools enrolling 61,765 students.
White students are the largest group at CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 40% of enrollment. Next come 30% Black, 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 5% Asian. The county population is about 71% White. The chance that two students picked at random at CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 72%.
CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 34 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 15.7:1. That ratio is under the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 64%. Compared with the 53% average for public schools in Volusia County, the school's rate is higher.
CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3.1 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (52.1% versus 49.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Florida.
According to the American Community Survey, in Volusia County, median household income is about $70,044, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. A total of 90 public schools operate in Volusia County, serving about 61,765 students.
The nearest public school is DAVID C. HINSON SR. MIDDLE SCHOOL, at about 3.4 miles. CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 47.9% proficiency; CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 52.1%.
NCES assigns CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count climbed from 466 to 533. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 10.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.7:1.
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Volusia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,622
Census ACS
Median income
$70,044
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
90
61,765 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in VOLUSIA
- DELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,936 students
- UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,855 students
- SPRUCE CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,576 students
- MAINLAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,964 students
- DELTONA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,716 students
- NEW SMYRNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,687 students
Other schools in DAYTONA BEACH
- MAINLAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,964 students
- SEABREEZE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,587 students
- CAMPBELL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 962 students
- DAVID C. HINSON SR. MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 922 students
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 774 students
- RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMYHigh · 771 students
Other Champion Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Champion Elementary. CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Champion Elementary SchoolBROWNSVILLE, TX · 710 students
Nearby schools
- DAVID C. HINSON SR. MIDDLE SCHOOL3.4 mi · 922
- PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.8 mi · 697
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.1 mi · 774
- HALIFAX BEHAVIORAL SERVICES4.1 mi · 9
- STEWART TREATMENT CENTER4.4 mi · 18
- AMIKIDS VOLUSIA4.4 mi · 22
Frequently asked questions
About CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 533 students in grades PK-05.
Is CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1.
What is the student diversity at CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 40% White, 14% Hispanic, 30% Black, 5% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CHAMPION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by VOLUSIA in Volusia County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.