HALIFAX BEHAVIORAL SERVICES

Set in DAYTONA BEACH, Florida, HALIFAX BEHAVIORAL SERVICES is a rural-scale unified-grade school, operated by VOLUSIA. It hosts 9 students across grades pre-K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 353 students per school, that is 97% below typical.

VOLUSIA runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 61,765 students. HALIFAX BEHAVIORAL SERVICES is one of those campuses.

On demographics, HALIFAX BEHAVIORAL SERVICES logs that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 44% Black, 11% Hispanic. By comparison, Volusia County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, HALIFAX BEHAVIORAL SERVICES logs 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 3.0:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Volusia County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Volusia County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,044 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Volusia County runs 90 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students), of which HALIFAX BEHAVIORAL SERVICES is one.

Nearest neighbor: AMIKIDS VOLUSIA, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HALIFAX BEHAVIORAL SERVICES.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HALIFAX BEHAVIORAL SERVICES has shrank 62%, going from 24 students in 2018 to 9 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share increased from 8% to 44%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 4.8:1 in 2018 to 3.0:1 in 2025.

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