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JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a mid-tier elementary school in JUPITER, Florida, JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 826 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under PALM BEACH. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 37% above that benchmark.
Within PALM BEACH, which oversees 233 schools and 191,505 students, JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 16% White, 2% multiracial, 2% Native American. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.
On the income-and-resources front, JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Palm Beach County's rate of about 45%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.2%, the actual is 55.7%, a residual of +3.5 points.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Palm Beach County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Palm Beach County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), of which JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
JUPITER HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 70.9%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 7%, going from 891 students in 2018 to 826 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 21% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.
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