CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the moderately sized primary schools in DELAND, Florida, overseen by VOLUSIA, with 729 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 21% bigger than typical.

Across the 87 schools in VOLUSIA (61,765 students total), CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 13% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.6%, the actual is 58.5%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Volusia County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,044 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Volusia County runs 90 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students), of which CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

PK CHILD CARE PROGRAM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 919 students in 2018 compared to 729 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 60% to 53% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.