BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the close-knit elementary schools in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, part of PALM BEACH, with 467 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

PALM BEACH comprises 233 schools with combined enrollment of 191,505 students; BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 10% Black, 9% White. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Palm Beach County's rate of about 45%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.6%; this one delivers 46.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Palm Beach County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,581, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

CONNISTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.7%.

BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 556 students in 2018 compared to 467 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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