FOREST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FOREST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-tier elementary-level community in DELTONA, Florida, operated by VOLUSIA, hosts 571 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

FOREST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 87 schools operated by VOLUSIA, a district that works with 61,765 students overall.

Demographically, FOREST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 38% White, 12% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Volusia County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, FOREST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FOREST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.9%, the actual is 53.5%, a residual of +1.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Volusia County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,044, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Volusia County runs 90 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students), of which FOREST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FOREST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FOREST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 49.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. FOREST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 635 (now 571). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 51% to 38%. Class-load math has widened: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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