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PINE TRAIL 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 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Located at 300 AIRPORT RD, in ORMOND BEACH, Florida, PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary-level community that works with 737 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by VOLUSIA. That puts it 22% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.
Within VOLUSIA, which oversees 87 schools and 61,765 students, PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 76% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 9% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian.
On the income-and-resources front, PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Volusia County's rate of about 53%.
After controlling for student poverty, PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.3%, the actual is 72.0%, a residual of +10.7 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Volusia County) reports that median household income runs about $70,044, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Volusia County's 90 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students), PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is PATHWAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.8%.
PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.
Trend over the last 7 years. PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 691 (now 737). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.
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