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Enrollment
726
Elementary
DISTRICT 552 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VOLUSIA·NCES 120192002105
SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
642 TAYLOR RD, PORT ORANGE, FL 32127 · (386) 322-6200 · Volusia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL726 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% 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.
- ABeats 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
14.0:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
357 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 | 29 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 110 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 111 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 132 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 121 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 117 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (110) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (117).
Student demographics
48%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
68.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.7pp since 2023
Math
73.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.3% | 73.7% |
| 2023-24 | 61.6% | 69.2% |
% 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
69.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (69.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 726 | 49.2% | 69.0% |
| FOREST RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HERNANDO | 665 | 51.0% | 55.0% |
| OTIS A. MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST AUGUSTINE | 731 | 48.3% | 73.3% |
| STARKEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SEMINOLE | 580 | 45.7% | 67.8% |
| TOMOKA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORMOND BEACH | 652 | 45.7% | 67.5% |
| WEST NAVARRE PRIMARY SCHOOL NAVARRE | 666 | 45.2% | N/A |
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 SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Volusia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #498 of 2,136 | #7 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.7% | #495 of 2,149 ▲ 65 | #7 of 48 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.3% | #501 of 2,149 ▲ 155 | #6 of 48 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 726 | #640 of 2,267 | #13 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #323 of 2,077 | #8 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.3% | #1,434 of 2,108 | #36 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.2% | #1,325 of 2,188 | #38 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.6% | #969 of 1,374 | #19 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
726
+23 (+3%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 1,095
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 726 | 52 | 14.0:1 | 49% (357) |
| 2023-24 | 771 | 60 | 12.8:1 | 56% (433) |
| 2022-23 | 785 | 57.8 | 13.6:1 | 51% (401) |
| 2020-21 | 703 | 49 | 14.3:1 | 50% (355) |
| 2017-18 | 803 | 61 | 13.2:1 | 64% (516) |
| 2015-16 | 759 | 57 | 13.3:1 | 62% (468) |
| 2010-11 | 726 | 51 | 14.2:1 | 56% (406) |
| 2000-01 | 742 | 40 | 18.6:1 | 36% (266) |
| 1990-91 | 1,095 | 51 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
This page covers SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary school in PORT ORANGE, Florida. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 726 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in Florida is about 604 students.
VOLUSIA counts 61,765 students in its 87 schools, and SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
At 70%, White students outnumber all other groups at SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL combined. Smaller groups are 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 4% Black. The county population is about 71% White, within a few points of the school. The chance that two students picked at random at SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 48%.
SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates with 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 14.0:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. About 49% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 69.0% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 56.5%.
SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Volusia County, where median household income is about $70,044, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 90 public schools in Volusia County, with a combined enrollment of about 61,765.
Nearby, SPRUCE CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.7 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd of 8 on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's location as Suburb: Large.
SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL saw enrollment rise 3% between 2020-21 and 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 PORT ORANGE
- SPRUCE CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,576 students
- ATLANTIC HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,209 students
- SILVER SANDS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,199 students
- CREEKSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,120 students
- CYPRESS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 761 students
- HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 618 students
Nearby schools
- SPRUCE CREEK HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 2,576
- SWEETWATER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 617
- SILVER SANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL2.0 mi · 1,199
- CYPRESS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 761
- HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 618
- PORT ORANGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 346
Frequently asked questions
About SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 726 students in grades PK-05.
Is SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 52 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
How diverse is SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 70% White, 14% Hispanic, 4% Black, 5% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SPRUCE CREEK 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.