GALAXY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in BOYNTON BEACH, Florida, GALAXY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school, one of the schools within PALM BEACH. It teaches 595 students across grades pre-K through 5.

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

On demographics, GALAXY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 7% White. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, GALAXY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 75% of students at GALAXY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GALAXY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of -6.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Palm Beach County put the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Palm Beach County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), of which GALAXY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

POINCIANA STEM ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GALAXY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 45.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. GALAXY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 677 (now 595).

Inside the community feed, the feed for GALAXY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.