LANTANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LANTANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in LANTANA, Florida, operated by PALM BEACH. The school instructs 517 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within PALM BEACH, which oversees 233 schools and 191,505 students, LANTANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, LANTANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Hispanic, 15% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, LANTANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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, LANTANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Palm Beach County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. LANTANA 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 LANTANA MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LANTANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 41.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LANTANA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has rose 6%, going from 486 students in 2018 to 517 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 47% to 55% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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