New Smyrna Beach, FL schools
New Smyrna Beach’s public schools score below Florida’s averages: 49% of students are proficient in reading against 52% statewide, and 88% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.3%. Kids attend Chisholm Elementary School or Read-Pattillo Elementary School or Coronado Beach Elementary School through grade 5, then New Smyrna Beach Middle School and New Smyrna Beach High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
New Smyrna Beach’s School Grade: C
The public schools New Smyrna Beach’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 75% of Florida’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Florida’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Florida only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Florida with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where New Smyrna Beach kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Below the state in reading
88% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #493 of 631 FL towns →
The district serving New Smyrna Beach
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near New Smyrna Beach
There’s no college in New Smyrna Beach, but 7 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach in Daytona Beach, 12.4 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of New Smyrna Beach. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
All 9 schools in New Smyrna Beach
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.