ELBRIDGE GALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ELBRIDGE GALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an average-sized elementary campus in WELLINGTON, Florida, one of the schools within PALM BEACH, hosts 842 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so ELBRIDGE GALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 39% larger than that benchmark.

PALM BEACH runs 233 schools in total, collectively educating 191,505 students. ELBRIDGE GALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, ELBRIDGE GALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 37%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 32% White, 19% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, ELBRIDGE GALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting ELBRIDGE GALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Palm Beach County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ELBRIDGE GALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.2%, the actual is 77.0%, a residual of +13.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Palm Beach County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ELBRIDGE GALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

The closest other public school is SOMERSET ACADEMY WELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ELBRIDGE GALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 61.0%.

ELBRIDGE GALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 1,064 students in 2018 compared to 842 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 36% to 32%. Class-load math has rose: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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