LOUISE S. MCINNIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LOUISE S. MCINNIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as an intimate elementary campus in DE LEON SPRINGS, Florida, operated by VOLUSIA. Current enrollment sits at 358 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 41% smaller than typical.

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

Demographically, LOUISE S. MCINNIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 35% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Volusia County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, LOUISE S. MCINNIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting LOUISE S. MCINNIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Volusia County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LOUISE S. MCINNIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Volusia County indicate median household earnings sit near $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. LOUISE S. MCINNIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 90 public schools in Volusia County (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students).

CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.8 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LOUISE S. MCINNIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 51.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 387 students in 2018 compared to 358 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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