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Enrollment
737
Elementary
DISTRICT 552 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VOLUSIA·NCES 120192002269
PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
300 AIRPORT RD, ORMOND BEACH, FL 32174 · (386) 676-5300 · Volusia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL737 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of Florida public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
16.1:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
292 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 | 2 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 102 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 115 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 135 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 146 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 130 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (130).
Student demographics
40%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
62.4%
FL avg 56.7% . -8.7pp since 2023
Math
72.3%
FL avg 58.9% . -4.5pp since 2023
What 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.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.4% | 72.3% |
| 2023-24 | 71.1% | 76.8% |
% 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
72.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.7pp
above demographic expectation
What 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%.
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 PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (72.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 737 | 39.6% | 72.0% |
| LYNN HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LYNN HAVEN | 688 | 39.1% | 57.9% |
| LEWIS CARROLL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MERRITT ISLAND | 634 | 37.1% | 76.6% |
| WEST NAVARRE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL NAVARRE | 739 | 37.2% | 70.6% |
| VENICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VENICE | 616 | 37.5% | 78.8% |
| ORIOLE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GULF BREEZE | 765 | 34.5% | 78.2% |
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 PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Volusia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #380 of 2,136 | #6 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.3% | #550 of 2,149 ▼ 228 | #10 of 48 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.4% | #727 of 2,149 ▼ 400 | #12 of 48 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 737 | #604 of 2,267 | #9 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #1,151 of 2,077 | #37 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.2% | #1,662 of 2,108 | #43 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.6% | #1,591 of 2,188 | #41 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.7% | #403 of 621 | #10 of 17 |
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
737
+170 (+30%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 900
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 737 | 45.8 | 16.1:1 | 40% (292) |
| 2023-24 | 711 | 48.8 | 14.6:1 | 45% (318) |
| 2022-23 | 688 | 51.8 | 13.3:1 | 45% (308) |
| 2020-21 | 567 | 44 | 12.9:1 | 40% (227) |
| 2017-18 | 691 | 50 | 13.8:1 | 51% (352) |
| 2015-16 | 703 | 51 | 13.8:1 | 52% (364) |
| 2010-11 | 791 | 54 | 14.7:1 | 33% (260) |
| 2000-01 | 690 | 40 | 17.3:1 | 24% (163) |
| 1990-91 | 900 | 47 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
At 300 AIRPORT RD in ORMOND BEACH, Florida, PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized elementary school. There are 737 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 22% larger than the 604-student average for elementary schools in Florida.
PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in VOLUSIA, a system of 87 schools with 61,765 students.
More than half of the students at PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White (76%). The rest of enrollment is 9% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The diversity index for PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 40%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1, with 45.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. The school has 40% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Volusia County is 53%.
PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 84% of Florida public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of Florida schools: 72.0% actual against 61.3% predicted.
The school is in Volusia County, where median household income comes to about $70,044, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Volusia County counts 90 public schools with about 61,765 students.
Among nearby public schools, PATHWAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest at about 1.3 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Small, means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment increased by 30% across 4 years, from 567 in 2020-21 to 737 in 2024-25. The ratio was 12.9:1 in 2020-21 and 16.1:1 in 2024-25.
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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 ORMOND BEACH
- ORMOND BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,007 students
- PATHWAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 667 students
- TOMOKA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 652 students
- ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 363 students
- RIVERVIEW LEARNING CENTERCombined · 47 students
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSHigh · 30 students
Nearby schools
- PATHWAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 667
- TOMOKA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 652
- DAVID C. HINSON SR. MIDDLE SCHOOL2.7 mi · 922
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS3.3 mi · 30
- ORMOND BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL3.4 mi · 1,007
- ORMOND BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.4 mi · 363
Frequently asked questions
About PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 737 students in grades PK-05.
Is PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 16.1:1 students per teacher at PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 76% White, 9% Hispanic, 8% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
PINE TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by VOLUSIA.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.