BEACON COVE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

Set in JUPITER, Florida, BEACON COVE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is a mid-tier elementary campus, run under PALM BEACH. It enrolls 603 students across grades 3 through 5.

Across the 233 schools in PALM BEACH (191,505 students total), BEACON COVE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, BEACON COVE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 15% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 53% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting BEACON COVE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Palm Beach County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BEACON COVE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.0%; this one delivers 83.5%.

In the area at large, census data for Palm Beach County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Palm Beach County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), BEACON COVE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WILLIAM T. DWYER HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BEACON COVE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 66.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 20%: 757 students in 2018 compared to 603 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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