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How has BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
467
Elementary
DISTRICT 685 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM BEACH·NCES 120150001501
BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3000 PARKER AVE, WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33405 · (561) 838-5900 · Palm Beach County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL467 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest 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.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
14.0:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
331 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 | 19 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
37%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
40.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
48.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.4% | 48.5% |
| 2023-24 | 39.7% | 43.5% |
% 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
46.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (46.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 467 | 70.9% | 46.5% |
| EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 488 | 70.5% | 38.6% |
| WIMAUMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WIMAUMA | 566 | 71.6% | 28.0% |
| MICHAEL MCCOY ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 459 | 66.9% | 47.9% |
| TWIN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 535 | 73.6% | 23.6% |
| DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 526 | 71.5% | 37.9% |
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 BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Palm Beach County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.5% | #1,508 of 2,136 | #84 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #1,634 of 2,149 ▲ 57 | #96 of 129 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #1,761 of 2,149 ▼ 109 | #91 of 129 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 467 | #1,547 of 2,267 | #105 of 133 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #335 of 2,077 | #27 of 128 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.8% | #1,731 of 2,108 | #110 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.9% | #429 of 2,188 | #31 of 130 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #675 of 1,374 | #27 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
467
-50 (-10%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 946
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 467 | 33.3 | 14.0:1 | 71% (331) |
| 2023-24 | 481 | 33.8 | 14.2:1 | 76% (367) |
| 2022-23 | 477 | 39 | 12.2:1 | 79% (376) |
| 2020-21 | 517 | 44 | 11.8:1 | 96% (497) |
| 2017-18 | 556 | 47 | 11.8:1 | 94% (524) |
| 2015-16 | 535 | 46 | 11.6:1 | 93% (498) |
| 2010-11 | 553 | 42 | 13.2:1 | 91% (501) |
| 2000-01 | 594 | 41 | 14.5:1 | 95% (566) |
| 1990-91 | 946 | 53 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school based in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 467 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Florida) has about 604 students.
PALM BEACH is the district for BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It has 233 schools and 191,505 students.
Hispanic students account for 78% of enrollment at BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Smaller groups are 10% Black and 9% White. For comparison, the population of Palm Beach County is roughly 24% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 37%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 14.0:1, with 33.3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. For comparison, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 71%. It compares with 45% for public schools in Palm Beach County.
BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded C by allk12, scoring above 34% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is within a point of its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (46.5% versus 45.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Florida.
Palm Beach County has these Census figures: 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. BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 245 public schools in Palm Beach County.
The nearest other public school, CONNISTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.6 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 4th of 6 nearby schools with test data.
The federal government classifies BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's location as City: Mid-size.
The student count in 2024-25 was 467, 10% below the 517 of 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 14.0:1, from 11.8:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. 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 WEST PALM BEACH
- PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,809 students
- WILLIAM T. DWYER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,163 students
- FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,923 students
- PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,397 students
- ALEXANDER W DREYFOOS JUNIOR SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 1,352 students
- BAK MIDDLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTSMiddle · 1,246 students
Other Belvedere Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named Belvedere Elementary. BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 6th largest of the 7.
- Belvedere ElementaryBelvedere, SC · 617 students
- Belvedere ElementaryFalls Church, VA · 606 students
- Belvedere ElementaryHighland, CA · 557 students
- Belvedere ElementaryArnold, MD · 542 students
- Belvedere ElementaryLos Angeles, CA · 526 students
Nearby schools
- CONNISTON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,153
- WORTHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 485
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT1.5 mi · 985
- ALEXANDER W DREYFOOS JUNIOR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS1.5 mi · 1,352
- CONNECTIONS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE PALM BEACHES1.6 mi · 92
- PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 508
Frequently asked questions
About BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 467 students in grades PK-05.
Is BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
What is the student diversity at BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 9% White, 78% Hispanic, 10% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PALM BEACH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.