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Enrollment
429
Elementary
DISTRICT 552 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VOLUSIA·NCES 120192002004
FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2746 FULFORD ST, DELTONA, FL 32738 · (386) 789-7030 · Volusia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL429 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
316 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 | 40 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
62%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
45.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
52.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +10.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.2% | 52.4% |
| 2023-24 | 42.3% | 41.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (45.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 429 | 73.7% | 45.1% |
| FLORINE J ABEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 485 | 73.6% | 59.8% |
| GIBSONTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GIBSONTON | 499 | 72.5% | 43.7% |
| MOORE HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MOORE HAVEN | 344 | 74.1% | 52.6% |
| NOCATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NOCATEE | 475 | 70.3% | 44.4% |
| AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AVON PARK | 503 | 68.8% | 51.6% |
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 FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Volusia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #1,573 of 2,136 | #40 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.4% | #1,444 of 2,149 ▲ 311 | #35 of 48 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.2% | #1,530 of 2,149 ▲ 1 | #40 of 48 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 429 | #1,685 of 2,267 | #38 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #709 of 2,077 | #22 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.7% | #769 of 2,108 | #22 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.7% | #315 of 2,188 | #6 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.9% | #588 of 621 | #15 of 17 |
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
429
+83 (+24%) vs 2020
-51% since 2000-01, when it was 871
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 429 | 28.5 | 15.1:1 | 74% (316) |
| 2023-24 | 422 | 29 | 14.6:1 | 82% (345) |
| 2022-23 | 415 | 28 | 14.8:1 | 75% (313) |
| 2020-21 | 346 | 28 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 425 | 32 | 13.3:1 | 88% (375) |
| 2015-16 | 421 | 32 | 13.2:1 | 86% (364) |
| 2010-11 | 485 | 40 | 12.1:1 | 78% (376) |
| 2000-01 | 871 | 52 | 16.8:1 | 64% (555) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Families in DELTONA, Florida, are served by FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a small elementary school. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 429 students enrolled. By comparison, elementary schools in Florida enroll about 604 students on average.
VOLUSIA runs FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL along with 86 other schools, enrolling 61,765 students in total.
Hispanic students are 53% of those enrolled at FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 28% White, 16% Black, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Volusia County's population at about 16%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 62%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.1:1. The school has 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average ratio is 17.5:1. Federal data show 74% of students (316) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 53% average for public schools in Volusia County is 21 points lower.
A school with FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in Florida is predicted to score 44.3%. FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 45.1%, within a point of that line.
In Volusia County, where the school is located, 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.
The closest school to FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is DELTONA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, located about 1.9 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 9th of 9.
Under the NCES locale system, FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is City: Small.
Enrollment was 429 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 346. The ratio was 12.4:1 in 2020-21 and 15.1:1 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
Other schools in DELTONA
- DELTONA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,716 students
- PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,648 students
- DELTONA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,132 students
- GALAXY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 939 students
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 932 students
- DELTONA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 731 students
Other Friendship Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Friendship Elementary. FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 6.
- Friendship Elementary SchoolBuford, GA · 673 students
- Friendship ElementaryWinston-Salem, NC · 470 students
- Friendship Elementary SchoolKELLER, TX · 464 students
- Friendship Elementary SchoolGlen Rock, PA · 377 students
- Friendship ElementaryFriendship, TN · 117 students
Nearby schools
- DELTONA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 731
- GALAXY MIDDLE SCHOOL2.5 mi · 939
- TIMBERCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 730
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL3.1 mi · 932
- PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.2 mi · 568
- VOLUSIA PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.4 mi · 477
Frequently asked questions
About FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 429 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1.
What is the student diversity at FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 28% White, 53% Hispanic, 16% Black, 3% Two or more.
What district is FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of VOLUSIA.
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