Spruce Creek High, 801 Taylor Road, Port Orange: grades 9-12, 2,576 students (2024-25), an A in Florida's 2026 grades. Zoned for part of Midtown.

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.

Spruce Creek High School is a Volusia County Schools high school on Taylor Road in Port Orange, the city south of Daytona Beach. It is outside Daytona Beach, but part of the city is zoned for it: about 6% of the address points inside Daytona Beach, all in the Turie T. Small Elementary zone in and around Midtown. It is also one of two district schools with the International Baccalaureate magnet program, which students from across the county can apply to.

Who to call

  • Front office: 386-322-6272, 801 Taylor Road, Port Orange, FL 32127
  • School website: sprucecreekhigh.com
  • Zones and planning: Volusia County Schools Planning and Business Services, 386-947-8786, ext. 50709
  • Magnet programs: the district’s School Choice Department, 386-734-7190, ext. 20645
  • Buses: Student Transportation Services, 386-258-4677
Address 801 Taylor Road, Port Orange, FL 32127
Phone 386-322-6272
Grades 9 to 12
Run by Volusia County Schools
Principal Todd Sparger
2026 state grade A (67% of points)

Principal. Todd Sparger is the principal, according to the school’s faculty and staff directory.

Enrollment and teachers

  • Federal count: 2,576 students in the 2024-25 school year, the most of any school on our Daytona Beach list, with 112 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 23 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 Spruce Creek High an A in its 2026 school grades, its third A in a row. The school earned 67% of the points possible, according to the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades file.

2026 school grade measure Result
School grade A (67% of points)
English language arts achievement 71%
Math achievement 56%
Science achievement 86%
Social studies achievement 78%
Graduation rate, 2024-25 100%
College and career acceleration, 2024-25 80%

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 Spruce Creek High zone map (PDF).

Of the 32,599 address points Volusia County lists inside Daytona Beach, 1,882 are in Spruce Creek High’s zone on the district’s boundary map data, last updated June 30, 2026. Every one of them is also zoned for Turie T. Small Elementary and Campbell Middle. Our Midtown guide shows how that area’s zones split.

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

  • Middle: Creekside Middle in Port Orange (about 99%), Silver Sands Middle in Port Orange (about 30%) and Campbell Middle (about 8%)
  • Elementary: Port Orange Elementary (all of it), Cypress Creek (about 97%), Spruce Creek Elementary (about 69%), Sweetwater (about 66%), Sugar Mill (about 49%), Turie T. Small (about 42%) and R. J. Longstreet (about 36%)

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. High schools run from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and to 2:30 p.m. on early release days, according to the district’s school hours page. Most Wednesdays are early release days. The school posts its own schedules, including a pep rally schedule, on its bell schedule page. The full calendar is in our Daytona Beach schools guide.

Sports and activities

In football, Spruce Creek plays in Class 6A, Region 1, District 2 for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 seasons, with DeLand, Mainland and University (Orange City), according to the Florida High School Athletic Association’s finalized football classifications (spreadsheet).

The school’s athletics page lists baseball, boys and girls basketball, beach volleyball, bowling, cheerleading, cross country, girls flag football, football, boys and girls golf, soccer, softball, swimming, boys and girls tennis, boys and girls track and field, boys and girls volleyball and boys and girls weightlifting. Danyalle Miles is the athletic director, the page says. Follow the season on our Friday night football page and scoreboard.

Programs. Spruce Creek has been an IB World School for more than 30 years, its home page says. The school’s IB page calls IB “a magnet program available to applicants at two locations, Spruce Creek and Deland.” Its academics pages also list Advanced Placement, dual enrollment, AVID and six academies: entrepreneurship, information technology and robotics, finance, videography, medical and the School of Performing Arts.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Spruce Creek High School serve?

Spruce Creek High serves grades 9 through 12. It is at 801 Taylor Road in Port Orange, and its main line is 386-322-6272.

What is Spruce Creek High School’s Florida school grade?

Spruce Creek High earned an A in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 67% of possible points. It also earned an A in 2025 and 2024.

Which part of Daytona Beach is zoned for Spruce Creek High?

About 6% of the address points inside Daytona Beach fall in Spruce Creek High’s zone on the district’s map, all of them in the Turie T. Small Elementary zone in and around Midtown.

Which middle schools feed into Spruce Creek High?

On Volusia County Schools’ zone map data, nearly all of Creekside Middle’s zone is in Spruce Creek High’s zone, along with about 30% of Silver Sands Middle’s and 8% of Campbell Middle’s.

What time does Spruce Creek High start?

Volusia County high schools run from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with dismissal at 2:30 p.m. on early release days, according to the district.