PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL

PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL is one of the well-populated 9-12 campuss in DELTONA, Florida, run under VOLUSIA, with 1,648 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL sits 59% above that benchmark.

Within VOLUSIA, which oversees 87 schools and 61,765 students, PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 35% White, 16% Black, 4% 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, Staff filings list 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, PINE RIDGE HIGH 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 50.3%, a residual of -5.3 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Volusia County put the typical household earns roughly $70,044 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Volusia County runs 90 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students), of which PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,711 (now 1,648). White enrollment moved from 45% to 35% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 in 2025.

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