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Enrollment
854
Elementary
DISTRICT 903 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HERNANDO·NCES 120081002605
DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2055 DELTONA BLVD, SPRING HILL, FL 34606 · (352) 797-7040 · Hernando County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL854 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
598 students
DISTRICT 54% · 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 | 59 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 136 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 120 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 160 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 139 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 117 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 123 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (136) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (123).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
47.4%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.4pp since 2023
Math
43.3%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.4% | 43.3% |
| 2023-24 | 47.8% | 44.1% |
% 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
45.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (45.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 854 | 70.0% | 45.4% |
| HARBOUR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUMMERFIELD | 833 | 65.5% | 36.5% |
| RICHEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 750 | 72.3% | 25.0% |
| ROMEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DUNNELLON | 747 | 66.7% | 42.7% |
| WOODLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ZEPHYRHILLS | 792 | 66.7% | 33.2% |
| BELLEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BELLEVIEW | 681 | 67.4% | 43.7% |
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 DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hernando County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.4% | #1,561 of 2,136 | #13 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #1,820 of 2,149 ▼ 154 | #14 of 14 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #1,429 of 2,149 ▼ 158 | #12 of 14 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 854 | #368 of 2,267 | #7 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #795 of 2,077 | #3 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.4% | #1,017 of 2,108 | #9 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.0% | #457 of 2,188 | #3 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.9% | #512 of 621 | #8 of 9 |
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
854
+135 (+19%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 695
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 854 | 56 | 15.3:1 | 70% (598) |
| 2023-24 | 855 | 61 | 14.0:1 | 76% (654) |
| 2022-23 | 843 | 51 | 16.5:1 | 72% (607) |
| 2020-21 | 719 | 49 | 14.7:1 | 71% (511) |
| 2017-18 | 830 | 57 | 14.6:1 | 76% (629) |
| 2015-16 | 946 | 74 | 12.8:1 | 85% (804) |
| 2010-11 | 813 | 62 | 13.1:1 | 70% (571) |
| 2000-01 | 787 | 49 | 16.1:1 | 47% (369) |
| 1990-91 | 695 | 43 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Families in SPRING HILL, Florida, are served by DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 854 students. It has 41% more students than the average for elementary schools in Florida (about 604).
A total of 29 schools make up HERNANDO, with 23,734 students enrolled.
At DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 51% of students are White. The school is also 40% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 4% Black. That is lower than the 76% White share among all Hernando County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 57%.
DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average ratio is 17.5:1. The school has 70% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 53% average for public schools in Hernando County, the school's rate is higher.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 46.1%. DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 45.4%.
The school's county is Hernando County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $66,058 a year, roughly 21% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Hernando County with 30 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 2.5 miles away. DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 9.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Mid-size. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 19%.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Hernando County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
207,018
Census ACS
Median income
$66,058
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
31
23,734 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HERNANDO
- FRANK W. SPRINGSTEAD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,853 students
- WINDING WATERS K-8Elementary · 1,613 students
- EXPLORER K-8Elementary · 1,544 students
- CHALLENGER K-8 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHElementary · 1,456 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,444 students
- WEEKI WACHEE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,437 students
Other schools in SPRING HILL
- FRANK W. SPRINGSTEAD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,853 students
- EXPLORER K-8Elementary · 1,544 students
- CHALLENGER K-8 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHElementary · 1,456 students
- CLASSICAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLCombined · 1,154 students
- SUNCOAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 967 students
- JOHN D. FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 920 students
Nearby schools
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 512
- EXPLORER K-82.9 mi · 1,544
- FRANK W. SPRINGSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL3.1 mi · 1,853
- GULF COAST ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY3.1 mi · 217
- GULF COAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.2 mi · 106
- SUNCOAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 967
Frequently asked questions
About DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 854 students in grades PK-05.
Is DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 56 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the student diversity at DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 51% White, 40% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
DELTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of HERNANDO.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.