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Enrollment
794
Elementary
DISTRICT 552 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VOLUSIA·NCES 120192002008
SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
600 ELIZABETH PL, SOUTH DAYTONA, FL 32119 · (386) 756-7180 · Volusia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL794 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 30% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
15.0:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
574 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 | 37 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 117 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 122 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 146 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 144 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 134 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (117) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (134).
Student demographics
71%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
47.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.4pp since 2023
Math
45.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.3% | 45.8% |
| 2023-24 | 41.9% | 37.1% |
% 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
44.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (44.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 794 | 72.3% | 44.8% |
| EMERALD SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 696 | 71.7% | 36.3% |
| SOUTH OCALA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 712 | 68.5% | 42.0% |
| W E CHERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 652 | 74.7% | 60.7% |
| JOHN F. TURNER SENIOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM BAY | 600 | 72.2% | 39.1% |
| DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM BAY | 679 | 67.2% | 42.5% |
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 SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Volusia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.8% | #1,591 of 2,136 | #41 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.8% | #1,735 of 2,149 ▲ 182 | #42 of 48 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #1,430 of 2,149 ▲ 115 | #38 of 48 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 794 | #478 of 2,267 | #2 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #677 of 2,077 | #21 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.6% | #159 of 2,108 | #2 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.3% | #370 of 2,188 | #8 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.7% | #910 of 1,374 | #17 of 30 |
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
794
+147 (+23%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 827
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 794 | 53 | 15.0:1 | 72% (574) |
| 2023-24 | 787 | 45 | 17.5:1 | 82% (647) |
| 2022-23 | 779 | 49 | 15.9:1 | 77% (601) |
| 2020-21 | 647 | 54 | 12.0:1 | 68% (440) |
| 2017-18 | 889 | 62 | 14.3:1 | 80% (710) |
| 2015-16 | 819 | 60 | 13.7:1 | 80% (655) |
| 2010-11 | 881 | 63 | 14.0:1 | 71% (626) |
| 2000-01 | 997 | 60 | 16.6:1 | 53% (533) |
| 1990-91 | 827 | 50 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
A mid-sized elementary school in SOUTH DAYTONA, Florida, SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of VOLUSIA. It teaches 794 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Florida have about 604 students on average; enrollment here is 31% higher.
VOLUSIA counts 87 schools and 61,765 students, including SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
No group is above 50% at SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the largest is White, at 40%. After that, the student body is 29% Black, 18% Hispanic, and 11% multiracial. Among all residents of Volusia County, the White share is about 71%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 71%.
Its staff includes 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 15.0 students per teacher. Compared with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida, this school's ratio is lower. Roughly 72% of students at SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Volusia County, the average eligibility rate is 53%.
Among Florida public elementary schools, SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 30%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 44.8% is within a point of the 44.9% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Volusia County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $70,044 a year, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Volusia County number 90, with about 61,765 students.
About 1.5 miles separate SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL from the closest public school, R. J. LONGSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 44.8% against a local average of 52.1%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count increased 23% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 15.0 students per teacher, compared with 12.0 in 2020-21.
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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
Nearby schools
- R. J. LONGSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 342
- SUGAR MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 526
- HOSPITAL HOMEBOUND1.8 mi · 49
- ATLANTIC HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 1,209
- PORT ORANGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 346
- CAMPBELL MIDDLE SCHOOL2.3 mi · 962
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 794 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.0:1 students per teacher at SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 40% White, 18% Hispanic, 29% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTH DAYTONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by VOLUSIA in Volusia County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.