Academics/Curriculum
Deltona High School has four academies to help prepare students for a career or post secondary education. The following academies include: the Drafting and Trade Related Occupations Academy, the PrintEd & Graphic Design Academy, the Health Services Academy, and the Academy of Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Management Academy. Deltona High School is the only school in Florida to be awarded PrintEd National Accreditation by the Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation for its Printing Technology Program.
The school, along with the rest of the Volusia County School system, weighs regular classes as 4.0, honors credits as 4.5, and community college credits and AP credits as 5.0. This weighted GPA system only gave 4.5 points to community college credits but was changed in 2008 to 5.0 points. This change in the weighted GPA was met with strong criticism from the local teachers' union and the Superintendent's Diploma of Distinction program.
The school had its first Muslim valedictorian at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year.
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