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Which teacher or staff member at BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
548
Elementary
DISTRICT 685 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM BEACH·NCES 120150003102
BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
500 NW AVENUE L, BELLE GLADE, FL 33430 · (561) 829-4800 · Palm Beach County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL548 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 7% of Florida public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
447 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 33 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 21% larger than its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
26.8%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.7pp since 2023
Math
42.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.8% | 42.7% |
| 2023-24 | 23.1% | 40.1% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (31.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 548 | 81.6% | 31.2% |
| GEORGE W. MUNROE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL QUINCY | 575 | 83.1% | 34.0% |
| ROBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 472 | 82.4% | 27.7% |
| ROLLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOYNTON BEACH | 673 | 77.9% | 30.8% |
| SULPHUR SPRINGS K-8 SCHOOL TAMPA | 678 | 84.5% | 29.6% |
| WEST RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RIVIERA BEACH | 524 | 77.9% | 25.4% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Palm Beach County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.2% | #2,048 of 2,136 | #125 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.7% | #1,843 of 2,149 ▼ 21 | #113 of 129 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.8% | #2,099 of 2,149 ▲ 19 | #126 of 129 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 548 | #1,233 of 2,267 | #93 of 133 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #345 of 2,077 | #28 of 128 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.7% | #1,603 of 2,108 | #96 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.6% | #125 of 2,188 | #8 of 130 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.3% | #297 of 1,374 | #6 of 77 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
548
-152 (-22%) vs 2020
-29% since 2000-01, when it was 775
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 548 | 39 | 14.1:1 | 82% (447) |
| 2023-24 | 580 | 39.5 | 14.7:1 | 84% (487) |
| 2022-23 | 593 | 39 | 15.2:1 | 86% (509) |
| 2020-21 | 700 | 46 | 15.2:1 | 97% (678) |
| 2017-18 | 744 | 58 | 12.8:1 | 97% (721) |
| 2015-16 | 659 | 64 | 10.3:1 | 97% (641) |
| 2010-11 | 602 | 47 | 12.8:1 | 99% (593) |
| 2000-01 | 775 | 51 | 15.2:1 | 95% (737) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Federal records list BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as an elementary school in BELLE GLADE, Florida. The student body numbers 548 students, from pre-K through 5.
PALM BEACH is made up of 233 schools with 191,505 students in all.
Black students account for 69% of enrollment at BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The remaining students are 30% Hispanic. Census estimates put the Black share of Palm Beach County's population at about 19%. By the diversity index, BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 43%.
Teachers at BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL total 39 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.1:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 82%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Palm Beach County is 45%.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In Florida, BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 31.2% actual against a predicted 40.3%.
Across Palm Beach County, median household income is about $83,581, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 41%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 245 public schools in Palm Beach County.
The closest public school, LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.4 miles from BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 7th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Town: Distant, meaning in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The student count in 2024-25 was 548, 22% below the 700 of 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 15.2:1 to 14.1:1.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Palm Beach County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,533,806
Census ACS
Median income
$83,581
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
192,831 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PALM BEACH
- JOHN I. LEONARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,262 students
- JUPITER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,122 students
- PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,881 students
- BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,819 students
- PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,809 students
- PALM BEACH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,760 students
Other schools in BELLE GLADE
- GLADES CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 979 students
- GOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 691 students
- LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 651 students
- PIONEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 408 students
- GLADE VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 313 students
- CROSSROADS ACADEMYHigh · 163 students
Nearby schools
- LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 651
- CROSSROADS ACADEMY0.8 mi · 163
- GLADE VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 313
- GOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 691
- PIONEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 408
- GLADES CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 979
Frequently asked questions
About BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 548 students in grades PK-05.
Is BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.1:1.
What is the student diversity at BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 30% Hispanic, 69% Black, 0% Asian.
What district is BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PALM BEACH.
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