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How has WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
532
Elementary
DISTRICT 552 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VOLUSIA·NCES 120192001970
WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1201 S WOODWARD AVE, DELAND, FL 32720 · (386) 740-7910 · Volusia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL532 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of Florida public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
14.4:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
336 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 | 32 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
68%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
46.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
56.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady 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 | 46.5% | 56.7% |
| 2023-24 | 46.4% | 51.7% |
% 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
51.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (51.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 532 | 63.2% | 51.3% |
| PEACE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT CHARLOTTE | 557 | 63.2% | 38.6% |
| DR. W.J. CREEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MELBOURNE | 542 | 63.3% | 34.2% |
| WILLISTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILLISTON | 515 | 63.3% | 45.8% |
| MILDRED HELMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LARGO | 515 | 61.6% | 63.9% |
| RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 592 | 66.0% | 59.2% |
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 WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Volusia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.3% | #1,270 of 2,136 | #32 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.7% | #1,256 of 2,149 ▲ 58 | #28 of 48 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.5% | #1,473 of 2,149 ▼ 149 | #39 of 48 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 532 | #1,291 of 2,267 | #31 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #456 of 2,077 | #15 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.9% | #363 of 2,108 | #6 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.2% | #786 of 2,188 | #16 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.9% | #539 of 1,374 | #10 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
532
+26 (+5%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 699
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 532 | 37 | 14.4:1 | 63% (336) |
| 2023-24 | 469 | 40 | 11.7:1 | 72% (337) |
| 2022-23 | 554 | 40 | 13.8:1 | 70% (386) |
| 2020-21 | 506 | 45 | 11.2:1 | 64% (322) |
| 2017-18 | 656 | 58 | 11.3:1 | 74% (488) |
| 2015-16 | 677 | 59 | 11.5:1 | 75% (507) |
| 2010-11 | 682 | 51 | 13.4:1 | 72% (490) |
| 2000-01 | 739 | 51 | 14.5:1 | 60% (445) |
| 1990-91 | 699 | 46 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in DELAND, Florida. Enrolled students number 532 students, in pre-K through 5.
VOLUSIA has a total of 87 schools and 61,765 students, WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 46%. The school is also 27% Hispanic, 20% Black, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The White share of the county population is higher, at 71%. WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 68%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
At WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 37 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 14.4:1. That ratio is under the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 63% of enrollment. The 53% average for public schools in Volusia County is 10 points lower.
allk12 grades WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a C+. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Test results at WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are 1.8 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (51.3% actual, 49.5% predicted).
In the county around the school, Volusia County, median household income is about $70,044, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. A total of 90 public schools operate in Volusia County, serving about 61,765 students.
The closest public school to WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 1.0 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Mid-size.
The student count in 2024-25 was 532, 5% above the 506 of 2020-21. The school's ratio rose from 11.2:1 to 14.4:1 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 DELAND
- DELAND HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,936 students
- DELAND MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,059 students
- FREEDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 786 students
- GEORGE W. MARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 780 students
- CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 729 students
- SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 664 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 664
- EDITH I. STARKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 270
- ESE RELATED SERVICES1.9 mi · 37
- PK CHILD CARE PROGRAM1.9 mi · 1
- CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 729
- DELAND MIDDLE SCHOOL2.1 mi · 1,059
Frequently asked questions
About WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 532 students in grades PK-05.
Is WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.4:1 (37 FTE teachers).
How diverse is WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 46% White, 27% Hispanic, 20% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
WOODWARD AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by VOLUSIA.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.