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Enrollment
439
Elementary
DISTRICT 552 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VOLUSIA·NCES 120192001988
EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL
801 S OLD COUNTY RD, EDGEWATER, FL 32132 · (386) 426-7300 · Volusia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL439 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of Florida public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
248 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 | 36 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
37%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
55.4%
FL avg 56.7% . -3.6pp since 2023
Math
73.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.4% | 73.3% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 65.8% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
67.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL
EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL's state test result (67.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL this school | 439 | 56.5% | 67.0% |
| FLORAL CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FLORAL CITY | 387 | 57.1% | 47.7% |
| COTTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COTTONDALE | 471 | 54.6% | 51.5% |
| READ-PATTILLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW SMYRNA BEACH | 369 | 55.8% | 61.3% |
| WEWAHITCHKA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEWAHITCHKA | 448 | 53.1% | 45.0% |
| PORT ORANGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT ORANGE | 346 | 59.8% | 67.6% |
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 EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Volusia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #562 of 2,136 | #12 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.3% | #520 of 2,149 ▲ 191 | #9 of 48 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #1,043 of 2,149 ▼ 285 | #22 of 48 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 439 | #1,643 of 2,267 | #37 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #307 of 2,077 | #5 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.9% | #1,730 of 2,108 | #45 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.5% | #1,027 of 2,188 | #27 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.6% | #284 of 1,374 | #4 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
439
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
-44% since 1990-91, when it was 778
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 439 | 31.6 | 13.9:1 | 56% (248) |
| 2023-24 | 456 | 33 | 13.8:1 | 62% (282) |
| 2022-23 | 504 | 43.8 | 11.5:1 | 64% (325) |
| 2020-21 | 444 | 45 | 9.9:1 | 62% (274) |
| 2017-18 | 598 | 50 | 12.0:1 | 75% (447) |
| 2015-16 | 595 | 54 | 11.0:1 | 79% (470) |
| 2010-11 | 656 | 55 | 11.9:1 | 66% (436) |
| 2000-01 | 728 | 51 | 14.3:1 | 54% (392) |
| 1990-91 | 778 | 43 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL.
About EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL
EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL operates as a small elementary school in EDGEWATER, Florida. Total enrollment is 439 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Florida enroll about 604 students on average.
VOLUSIA runs 87 schools with a combined 61,765 students. EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL is one of them.
More than half of the students at EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL are White (79%). The remaining shares are 8% Black, 6% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL scores 37%.
EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL has 31.6 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average ratio is 17.5:1. The school has 56% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 82% of Florida public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL is in the top 10% of Florida schools: 67.0% actual against 52.9% predicted.
Census data for Volusia County show the median household earns about $70,044 a year, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Public schools in Volusia County number 90, with about 61,765 students.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 1.7 miles from EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes 6 other public schools. By average proficiency, EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL is 3rd among 9 schools close by.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 439, close to the 444 recorded in 2020-21. The ratio was 9.9:1 in 2020-21 and 13.9:1 in 2024-25.
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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
Nearby schools
- NEW SMYRNA BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 1,036
- NEW SMYRNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 1,687
- READ-PATTILLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 369
- CORONADO BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 242
- INDIAN RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.8 mi · 614
- CHISHOLM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 479
Frequently asked questions
About EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOLHow large is EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL?
EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL enrolls approximately 439 students in grades PK-05.
Is EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL have?
EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the student diversity at EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL?
Student demographics at EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL are roughly 79% White, 6% Hispanic, 8% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL?
EDGEWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL is overseen by VOLUSIA in Volusia County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.