R. J. LONGSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in DAYTONA BEACH, Florida, R. J. LONGSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary campus, operated by VOLUSIA. It serves 342 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% below the state mean of about 604.

Across the 87 schools in VOLUSIA (61,765 students total), R. J. LONGSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, R. J. LONGSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 8% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting R. J. LONGSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 61% of students at R. J. LONGSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Volusia County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), R. J. LONGSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of +2.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Volusia County indicate median household income runs about $70,044, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. R. J. LONGSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 90 public schools in Volusia County (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students).

The closest other public school is SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, R. J. LONGSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 443 students in 2018 compared to 342 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 9% to 17%.

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