Deltona High School - Enrollment

Enrollment

An additional secondary school to the Volusia County School Board, which began under the project name "High School DDD", began construction in late 2006. Located in Orange City, Florida, the school is expected to be finished in early 2010 and will open for the 2010-2011 school year. School-district officials confirmed to have hoped the Orange City school would provide relief to DeLand High School, which is over capacity with 3,160 students, as of May 2009. The school would also provide relief to Deltona High School to shift students away from the overpopulated institution, which would also affect zoning amongst other students in Deltona. At a cost of around $96 million, University High School is, currently, one of the largest and the most expensive ever built in Volusia County.

The decision to build the school for the purpose of re-zoning students who live East of Interstate 4 to University High School had stirred some controversy. Some city commissioners and parents of Deltona High School students were initially against the idea of transferring students who lived East of Interstate 4 to a new school. Mayor Dennis Mulder and City Commission vowed to urge the School Board to change its mind on school rezoning, before final action was taken on December 8, 2009. Instead, the City Commission and the School Board decided to discuss the matters through mediation, which would be discussed between January or February 2010 at the earliest.

As of November 2009, confirmed by the West Volusia Beacon community newspaper, Deltona High School was initially designed to accommodate 1,834 students. The enrollment is, currently, at 2,981. Pine Ridge High School's initial capacity was 1,741, but the student body is, currently, at 2,197. The other existing school affected by the rezoning, DeLand High School, has a design capacity of 2,804, but the school enrollment is, currently, at 3,286. University High school is confirmed to accommodate 2,564 students.