BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 1700 BARTON RD, in LAKE WORTH, Florida, BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a sizable K-5 school that enrolls 1,185 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by PALM BEACH. Enrollment runs roughly 96% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 233 schools operated by PALM BEACH, a district that educates 191,505 students overall.

On the student-mix side, BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. Beyond that, the school records 27% Black, 5% Native American, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Palm Beach County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.8%, the actual is 35.7%, a residual of -11.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Palm Beach County) records that median household income runs about $83,581, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

The closest other public school is PALM BEACH MARITIME ACADEMY ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 40.3%.

BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has grew 30%, going from 911 students in 2018 to 1,185 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 51% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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