ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 25 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a tight-knit elementary-level community in ORMOND BEACH, Florida, ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 363 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of VOLUSIA. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 40% leaner than that benchmark.
ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 87 schools operated by VOLUSIA, a district that hosts 61,765 students overall.
Demographically, ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Volusia County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 55.1%; this one delivers 80.0%, a residual of +24.9 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Volusia County) records that median household income runs about $70,044, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 90 public schools in Volusia County (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students).
The closest other public school is PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 59.1%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 11%: 326 students in 2018 compared to 363 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 74% to 68%.
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