Daytona College Student Defense Lawyer | Ormond Beach

Daytona College is a single-campus private for-profit institution in Ormond Beach — not, despite the name, in Daytona Beach, and not connected to Daytona State College, which is a public Florida College System institution with an entirely different legal position. That distinction matters at the outset, because the two are governed by different law.

65.63% of 32 first-time candidates

The associate-degree programme passed 65.63% of 32 first-time candidates in 2025 against a floor of 76.05% — twenty-one passes and eleven failures, roughly ten points short.

Under Fla. Stat. section 464.019(5)(a)1 a Florida nursing programme’s first-time NCLEX passage rate must stay within 10 percentage points of the national average for comparable programmes — in 2025 that floor was 76.05% for associate-degree programmes and 77.17% for practical-nursing programmes. Section 464.019(5)(a)2 puts a programme two consecutive years below the floor at risk of probation and loss of approval, and section 464.019(5)(c) then obliges the programme to disclose that probationary status in writing to its students and applicants — a failure to give that notice is an independent, statute-based misrepresentation theory against a school that enrolled a student while on probation. A single year below the floor is not probation, and the Board of Nursing publishes no probation roster, so probationary status must be established from board minutes and orders rather than inferred. Every Florida programme is tabulated on the Florida nursing programme pass-rate page.

A private school, so the statute students rely on does not apply

Most writing about Florida student dismissal assumes a public college, where Fla. Stat. section 1006.60(3) supplies notice, a hearing, the right to be accompanied by counsel and a burden that rests on the institution. This is a private institution. None of that section reaches it.

What governs instead is the enrolment agreement, the catalogue and the student and programme handbooks, read as a contract. Sharick v. Southeastern University of the Health Sciences establishes that a Florida student dismissed in breach of the school’s own contractual undertakings has a claim, and that damages can extend to lost future earning capacity rather than a refund of tuition. So the work is documentary: identify the exact promises the school made about process, and show which it did not keep.

Two further things matter at schools of this kind. Many enrolment agreements contain an arbitration clause, and whether it binds a student depends on the version signed, how broadly it is drafted, whether its cost terms are unconscionable and whether the school has waived it — that question comes first, because it decides whether there is a courtroom at all. And where a school is licensed by the Florida Commission for Independent Education rather than regionally accredited, the CIE complaint route exists alongside any civil claim and is often the faster pressure point.

Do not confuse it with Daytona State College

Worth restating, because it changes the whole analysis. Daytona State College is public: Fla. Stat. section 1006.60(3) applies to it in full, including the right to be accompanied by counsel and the burden resting on the institution, and its decisions are reviewable by petition for writ of certiorari in the circuit court within 30 days under Fla. R. App. P. 9.100(c). Daytona College is private: none of that applies, and the claim is contractual. A student who assumes the public-college framework because of the similar name will build the wrong case and may miss the deadlines that actually govern.

Where a Daytona College case is filed

Ormond Beach is in Volusia County, in the Middle District of Florida, assigned by Local Rule 1.04(a) to the Orlando Division — subject to any forum or arbitration term in the enrolment agreement.

What can a student defense lawyer do here?

  • Resolve the arbitration question first, from the agreement the student actually signed.
  • Assemble the enrolment agreement, catalogue and programme handbook for the correct edition, and pin down the promises about process.
  • Test the progression arithmetic — withdrawals, repeats and clinical failures are often counted in ways the handbook does not authorise.
  • Use the Commission for Independent Education complaint route where the school is CIE-licensed, in parallel with the civil claim.
  • Press on the wording of the decision letter, which follows the student into every future licensure and transfer application.

How Florida student dismissal cases work generally is set out on the Florida student defence page.

Other Florida colleges

Every school writes its own dismissal, appeal and conduct rules, and the filing deadlines are rarely the same from one campus to the next. These pages set out the procedure at other Florida colleges:

Common questions about Daytona College cases

Is Daytona College the same as Daytona State College?

No, and the difference is fundamental. Daytona State College is a public institution covered by Fla. Stat. section 1006.60(3) with certiorari review available. Daytona College is a private for-profit school where the claim is contractual and that statute does not apply.

What was Daytona College’s nursing pass rate?

65.63% of 32 first-time candidates in 2025 — twenty-one passes and eleven failures — against a statutory floor of 76.05%.

Where is the campus?

Ormond Beach, in Volusia County — not Daytona Beach, despite the name.

Which court covers Ormond Beach?

The Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division. Volusia County is assigned to Orlando by Local Rule 1.04(a) — subject to any forum-selection or arbitration clause.