DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 975 ABAGAIL DR, in DELTONA, Florida, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary campus that instructs 653 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under VOLUSIA.

VOLUSIA runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 61,765 students. DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 36% White, 10% Black, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Volusia County (around 53%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.1%, the actual is 47.1%, a residual of -0.0 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Volusia County put median household income runs about $70,044, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SPIRIT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.

DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 635 (now 653). Hispanic enrollment moved from 41% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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