HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a moderately sized K-5 school in PORT ORANGE, Florida, one of the schools within VOLUSIA, teaches 618 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

VOLUSIA runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 61,765 students. HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 17% Black, 13% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 51% of students at HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.5%, the actual is 64.9%, a residual of +9.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Volusia County shows median household income runs about $70,044, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Volusia County's 90 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students), HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SWEETWATER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 771 students in 2018 compared to 618 in 2025.

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