EGRET LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

EGRET LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, operated by PALM BEACH, instructing 547 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, EGRET LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Black (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 34% Hispanic, 7% White, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, EGRET LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Palm Beach County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, EGRET LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 38.3%, a residual of -10.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Palm Beach County put the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. EGRET LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

SEMINOLE TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EGRET LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 605 students in 2018 compared to 547 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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