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What's the one class at PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
697
Elementary
DISTRICT 552 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VOLUSIA·NCES 120192001196
PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1825 DUNN AVE, DAYTONA BEACH, FL 32114 · (386) 274-3430 · Volusia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL697 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Florida public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
570 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 114 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 140 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (109) is 21% larger than its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
39.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +10.3pp since 2023
Math
37.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.5% | 37.3% |
| 2023-24 | 29.2% | 32.6% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (34.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 697 | 81.8% | 34.5% |
| MELROSE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE CITY | 635 | 82.2% | 41.5% |
| WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DAYTONA BEACH | 774 | 83.9% | 35.8% |
| OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 631 | 83.7% | 28.3% |
| MADISON COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL MADISON | 828 | 76.8% | 30.4% |
| GROVE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 656 | 74.8% | 41.0% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Volusia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #1,996 of 2,136 | #47 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.3% | #1,993 of 2,149 ▲ 22 | #46 of 48 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #1,794 of 2,149 ▲ 225 | #45 of 48 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 697 | #707 of 2,267 | #14 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #756 of 2,077 | #25 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.0% | #940 of 2,108 | #27 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.8% | #119 of 2,188 | #4 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.1% | #1,330 of 1,374 | #29 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
697
+179 (+35%) vs 2020
+4% since 2000-01, when it was 670
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 11.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 697 | 46 | 15.2:1 | 82% (570) |
| 2023-24 | 641 | 41 | 15.6:1 | 88% (562) |
| 2022-23 | 592 | 39 | 15.2:1 | 83% (494) |
| 2020-21 | 518 | 45 | 11.5:1 | 75% (391) |
| 2017-18 | 705 | 55 | 12.8:1 | 90% (638) |
| 2015-16 | 715 | 52 | 13.8:1 | 93% (663) |
| 2010-11 | 784 | 62 | 12.7:1 | 93% (727) |
| 2000-01 | 670 | 53 | 12.6:1 | 82% (551) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL runs as a medium-sized elementary school in DAYTONA BEACH, Florida. Enrolled students number 697 students, in pre-K through 5.
VOLUSIA has 87 schools and 61,765 students, and PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment is 60% Black. Enrollment also includes 16% White, 14% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. Among people living in Volusia County, the Black share is about 11%. The chance that two students picked at random at PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 59%.
A ratio of 15.2:1 comes from the school's 46 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is higher than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 82% of students at PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 53% average for public schools in Volusia County is 29 points.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The model predicts 40.2% for a school in Florida with PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 34.5%.
Federal survey data for Volusia County show that median household income is about $70,044, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 90 public schools in Volusia County.
The shortest distance from PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 1.1 miles, to HALIFAX BEHAVIORAL SERVICES. The five-mile area around PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 40.0%, higher than PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 34.5%.
NCES assigns PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was 518 in 2020-21 and 697 in 2024-25, a increase of 179 students. Federal data show the ratio rising from 11.5:1 to 15.2:1.
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Volusia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,622
Census ACS
Median income
$70,044
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
90
61,765 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in VOLUSIA
- DELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,936 students
- UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,855 students
- SPRUCE CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,576 students
- MAINLAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,964 students
- DELTONA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,716 students
- NEW SMYRNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,687 students
Other schools in DAYTONA BEACH
- MAINLAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,964 students
- SEABREEZE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,587 students
- CAMPBELL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 962 students
- DAVID C. HINSON SR. MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 922 students
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 774 students
- RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMYHigh · 771 students
Nearby schools
- HALIFAX BEHAVIORAL SERVICES1.1 mi · 9
- AMIKIDS VOLUSIA1.2 mi · 22
- MAINLAND HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 1,964
- WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 774
- RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY2.0 mi · 771
- THE CHILES ACADEMY2.3 mi · 90
Frequently asked questions
About PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 697 students in grades PK-05.
Is PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 16% White, 14% Hispanic, 60% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PALM TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by VOLUSIA in Volusia County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.