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PRIDE 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 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Located at 1100 LEARNING LN, in DELTONA, Florida, PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school that educates 568 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within VOLUSIA.
Across the 87 schools in VOLUSIA (61,765 students total), PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% White, 14% Black, 7% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.
On the resource side, PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.4%; this one delivers 54.8%.
Around the school, census data for Volusia County shows median household income runs about $70,044, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Volusia County runs 90 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students), of which PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 49.2%.
The school occupies a city-core site.
Over the past 7-year window. PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 586 (now 568). White enrollment moved from 44% to 31% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.
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Volusia County at a glance
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