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JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a moderately sized primary school in JUPITER, Florida, operated by PALM BEACH, hosts 609 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 233 schools in PALM BEACH (191,505 students total), JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 53% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 14% of students at JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 74.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 84.9%.
Across the wider county, 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 roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. JUPITER FARMS 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 THE LEARNING ACADEMY AT THE ELS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE, roughly 4.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 69.7%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Five-year trend. JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 624 (now 609).
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