PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 1825 DUNN AVE, in DAYTONA BEACH, Florida, PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary-level community that caters to 697 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within VOLUSIA.

PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 87 schools operated by VOLUSIA, a district that hosts 61,765 students overall.

Demographically, PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 60% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 16% White, 14% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Volusia County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Volusia County's rate of about 53%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.2%, the actual is 34.5%, a residual of -5.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Volusia County) reports that median household earnings sit near $70,044, 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 PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: HALIFAX BEHAVIORAL SERVICES, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has stayed largely flat, going from 705 students in 2018 to 697 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 67% to 60% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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