FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the intimate primary schools in DELTONA, Florida, operated by VOLUSIA, with 429 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 29% below that benchmark.

Across the 87 schools in VOLUSIA (61,765 students total), FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% White, 16% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Volusia County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Volusia County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.3%, the actual is 45.1%, a residual of +0.9 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Volusia County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $70,044 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 90 public schools in Volusia County (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students).

The closest other public school is DELTONA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 425 (now 429). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 39% to 53%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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