SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in SOUTH DAYTONA, Florida, SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary campus, part of VOLUSIA. It serves 794 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 31% larger than that benchmark.

VOLUSIA runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 61,765 students. SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% Black, 18% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Volusia County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Volusia County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.9%, the actual is 44.8%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Volusia County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,044 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 90 public schools in Volusia County (combined enrollment of about 61,765 students).

The closest other public school is R. J. LONGSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 889 students in 2018 compared to 794 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 6% to 18% over that span.

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