The top reported proficiency rate is 66% in Math. The lowest is 63% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Belle Terre Elementary School
Belle Terre Elementary sits on Belle Terre Parkway in Palm Coast, a city that was never an organic town but a master-planned community platted decades ago by a developer, organized into named sections of single-family homes, canals, golf courses, and wooded lots. The commercial life is clustered along corridors like Palm Coast Parkway; most neighborhoods, including the one this school draws from, are car-dependent and quiet, with the city's extensive trail network doing more for daily movement than sidewalks to shops. Palm Coast is growing quickly, with large approved residential expansions, a new data center, and a YMCA under construction in Town Center, the area the city has been building out as its designated downtown. AdventHealth is publicly reported as the county's leading employer, and health care has recently surpassed hospitality as the top job sector locally.
The school serves pre-kindergarten through seventh grade, which is an unusual span. Most of its enrollment is in the elementary years, from kindergarten through fifth grade, with only a handful of students in sixth and seventh grade based on the enrollment breakdown. Because the school serves these grades, the available state testing data comes from Florida's FAST assessments in third through fifth grade and the fifth-grade statewide science assessment.
On those assessments, the picture is mixed and worth understanding in some detail. Third-grade math proficiency is solid, sitting well above the midpoint and representing the school's strongest result in the data. ELA in third grade is more moderate. By fourth and fifth grade, math and ELA proficiency rates soften noticeably, with fourth-grade ELA being the lowest figure reported. Fifth-grade science comes in near the middle of the range. None of these results are alarming in isolation, but the pattern of declining proficiency as students move through the upper elementary grades is something a parent may want to ask the school about directly, particularly around what support structures exist for students who fall behind in literacy and math between third and fifth grade. Trend data across years was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these results reflect improvement, decline, or stability.
Roughly half of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this school in a meaningfully mixed economic context rather than a uniformly affluent or uniformly high-need one. The student population is majority white, with Hispanic students making up the next largest group and Black students, multiracial students, and Asian students also present in the mix. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not reported, so that dimension of the school's support capacity is not visible from this data set; a parent whose child has an IEP or is an English learner would want to ask Flagler Schools directly about services at this campus.
On the housing side, home values near the school are close to both the Florida state benchmark and the national benchmark, though they have slipped slightly year over year. Rents in the area have moved modestly upward. The cost of renting relative to income is in a range that, by national standards, is not extreme, though Palm Coast is an almost entirely car-dependent place, so transportation costs factor into any household budget calculation here.
One district-wide change worth knowing: Flagler Schools has implemented a full-day cellphone ban at elementary schools, extended now to middle schools as well under a Florida law that took effect in mid-2025. Publicly reported figures from the district show device-related discipline referrals dropped substantially after the policy was enforced, and the district appears committed to sustained compliance. For a family accustomed to being able to reach a child by phone during the school day, this is a genuine shift in daily logistics.
Graduation rate does not apply to Belle Terre because the school does not serve high school grades. Comparison data against other Flagler County districts was not computed because there is only one district in the county, so no peer ranking is available.
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