Atlantic High, 1250 Reed Canal Road, Port Orange: grades 9-12, 1,209 students (2024-25), an A in Florida's 2026 grades. Zoned for part of Daytona Beach.

Last checked Oct. 9, 2026. Sources: Volusia County Schools and its attendance boundary information, the school’s website, the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades, the federal NCES school directory and the Florida High School Athletic Association.

Atlantic High School is a Volusia County Schools high school on Reed Canal Road in Port Orange, the city south of Daytona Beach. It is outside Daytona Beach, but its zone reaches north into the city: about 17% of the address points inside Daytona Beach are zoned for Atlantic, including Pelican Bay and Beville Road and part of the South Peninsula.

Who to call

  • Front office: 386-322-6100, 1250 Reed Canal Road, Port Orange, FL 32129
  • School website: atlanticsharks.com
  • Zones and planning: Volusia County Schools Planning and Business Services, 386-947-8786, ext. 50709
  • Enrolling: the district’s new student registration page, or the district main line, 386-734-7190
  • Buses: Student Transportation Services, 386-258-4677
Address 1250 Reed Canal Road, Port Orange, FL 32129
Phone 386-322-6100
Grades 9 to 12
Run by Volusia County Schools
Principal Jason Watson
2026 state grade A (68% of points)

Principal. Jason Watson is the principal, according to the school’s faculty and staff directory.

Enrollment and teachers

  • Federal count: 1,209 students in the 2024-25 school year, with 54 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 22 students per teacher.
  • State figure: the state’s report card shows current enrollment by grade and student group. It is an interactive dashboard and could not be read for this page.

State report card

Florida gave Atlantic High an A in its 2026 school grades, its second A in a row after a B in 2024. The school earned 68% of the points possible, according to the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades file.

2026 school grade measure Result
School grade A (68% of points)
English language arts achievement 54%
Math achievement 44%
Science achievement 85%
Social studies achievement 80%
Graduation rate, 2024-25 98%
College and career acceleration, 2024-25 79%

Achievement is the share of tested students who scored on grade level on the state’s tests. Florida grades every public school A to F from those results, students’ learning gains and, for high schools, graduation and college and career acceleration, the columns of the state’s file show. For a high school, A is 65% of possible points or more, B is 60% to 64%, C is 45% to 59% and D is 35% to 44%, the file says.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Zones do not follow city limits. Check any address with the district’s Find My School tool or its interactive boundary map, or open the printable Atlantic High zone map (PDF).

Of the 32,599 address points Volusia County lists inside Daytona Beach, 5,468 are in Atlantic High’s zone on the district’s boundary map data, last updated June 30, 2026. Of those, 3,809 are zoned for South Daytona Elementary and Silver Sands Middle, and 1,345 for Palm Terrace Elementary. Our neighborhoods guide shows the zoned schools area by area.

We did not find a feeder list on the district’s website. On its zone map data, these zones overlap Atlantic High’s, shown as the share of each zone’s address points that are also in the Atlantic zone:

  • Middle: Silver Sands Middle in Port Orange (about 70%) and Campbell Middle (about 8%)
  • Elementary: South Daytona (all of it), Horizon (all of it), Sugar Mill (about 51%), Sweetwater (about 34%), Spruce Creek Elementary (about 31%), Palm Terrace (about 27%) and R. J. Longstreet (about 21%)

Rezoning. “There are currently no proposed attendance boundary changes before the Board,” the district’s attendance boundary page said on Oct. 9.

Calendar and bell times

From the Volusia County Schools 2026-27 calendar (PDF):

  • Monday, Oct. 12: student holiday
  • Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day holiday
  • Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving holiday; classes resume Monday, Nov. 30
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 4, 2027: winter holiday; classes resume Tuesday, Jan. 5

Bell times. The school’s bell schedule runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with a 15-minute “Shark Lab” before lunch. On early release days high schools dismiss at 2:30 p.m., according to the district’s school hours page; most Wednesdays are early release days. The full calendar is in our Daytona Beach schools guide.

Sports and activities

The school’s sports page lists baseball, beach volleyball, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls volleyball, boys and girls weightlifting, cheer, cross country, flag football, varsity football, golf, softball, swimming, track and field and wrestling. Ryan Vaughan is the athletic director, according to its athletics page.

Atlantic High of Port Orange does not appear in the Florida High School Athletic Association’s finalized football classifications (spreadsheet) for 2026-27 and 2027-28; the only Atlantic on the list is the high school in Delray Beach. Ask the athletic department for the football schedule. Follow local results on our Friday night football page and scoreboard.

Programs. The school’s academics pages list Cambridge AICE, which students apply to, JROTC and six academies: law and government; automotive technology and maintenance; teaching, education and learning; technology, engineering, science and aerospace; gaming and simulation; and sports media and marketing. Career and technical programs listed include the Atlantic Marketing Program, culinary arts, digital design, the EARTH environment and agriculture program and on-the-job training.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Atlantic High School serve?

Atlantic High serves grades 9 through 12. It is at 1250 Reed Canal Road in Port Orange, and its main line is 386-322-6100.

What is Atlantic High School’s Florida school grade?

Atlantic High earned an A in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 68% of possible points. It also earned an A in 2025 and a B in 2024.

Which part of Daytona Beach is zoned for Atlantic High?

About 17% of the address points inside Daytona Beach fall in Atlantic High’s zone on the district’s map, mostly on the south mainland around Pelican Bay and Beville Road.

Which middle schools feed into Atlantic High?

On Volusia County Schools’ zone map data, about 70% of the address points in Silver Sands Middle’s zone and about 8% of those in Campbell Middle’s zone are also in Atlantic High’s zone.

What time does Atlantic High start?

Atlantic’s bell schedule runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., matching the district’s hours for high schools.