BENOIST FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BENOIST FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the small elementary campuss in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, operated by PALM BEACH, with 430 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 29% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

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

On demographics, BENOIST FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest consists of 43% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at BENOIST FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BENOIST FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.2%; this one comes in at 33.8%, -14.4 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, Palm Beach County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,581, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Palm Beach County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), of which BENOIST FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is TURNING POINTS ACADEMY, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BENOIST FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. BENOIST FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 514 (now 430). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 30% to 43% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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