NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools FL

Best-Resourced Schools in Port Orange, FL

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13 public K-12 schools in Port Orange from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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13
Schools
10,217
Students
42.5/100
Avg Resource Index
14:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Port Orange has more public-school enrollment than 81% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Port Orange sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

9 of Port Orange's 13 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 58-point gap between Volusia Virtual Instruction Program District Provided and Silver Sands Middle School shows the range hidden by Port Orange's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 19%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
58th percentile
Teacher staffing
67th percentile

Spruce Creek High School accounts for 25.2% of all Port Orange public-school enrollment

That concentration means Port Orange-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Port Orange school enrollment varies 92× across entities

Port Orange school enrollment ranges from 28 students (lowest) to 2,576 students (highest), a spread of 2,548 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Port Orange operates one school district — a single-district system

Port Orange's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Port Orange student-teacher ratio is 14.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Port Orange is typically wider than the Port Orange-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Volusia Virtual Instruction Program District Provided 82
2. Sweetwater Elementary School 53
3. Cypress Creek Elementary School 50
4. Hospital Homebound 48
5. Port Orange Elementary School 45
6. Spruce Creek High School 38
7. Creekside Middle School 38
8. Atlantic High School 37
9. Spruce Creek Elementary School 36
10. Volusia Online Learning-Flvs (Franchise) 35
11. Horizon Elementary School 33
12. Sugar Mill Elementary School 33
13. Silver Sands Middle School 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Port Orange

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Hospital Homebound 63.4/100
  2. 2 Atlantic High School 62.4/100
  3. 3 Horizon Elementary School 60.8/100
  4. 4 Silver Sands Middle School 60.1/100
  5. 5 Volusia Online Learning-Flvs (Franchise) 55.1/100

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Which Port Orange school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Volusia Virtual Instruction Program District Provided has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Port Orange schools in this federal-data comparison at 82/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Port Orange, FL? ▼

Port Orange has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,217 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.