CLIFFORD O TAYLOR/KIRKLANE ELEMENTARY

As a high-enrollment K-5 school in PALM SPRINGS, Florida, CLIFFORD O TAYLOR/KIRKLANE ELEMENTARY enrolls 1,342 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within PALM BEACH. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 122% larger than typical.

PALM BEACH runs 233 schools in total, collectively educating 191,505 students. CLIFFORD O TAYLOR/KIRKLANE ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CLIFFORD O TAYLOR/KIRKLANE ELEMENTARY shows that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 12% Black, 6% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 70% of students at CLIFFORD O TAYLOR/KIRKLANE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CLIFFORD O TAYLOR/KIRKLANE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 42.1%, a residual of -3.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Palm Beach County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,581, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CLIFFORD O TAYLOR/KIRKLANE ELEMENTARY is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

The closest other public school is PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CLIFFORD O TAYLOR/KIRKLANE ELEMENTARY comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CLIFFORD O TAYLOR/KIRKLANE ELEMENTARY has increased 9%, going from 1,231 students in 2018 to 1,342 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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