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LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY
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 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY
LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in LOXAHATCHEE, Florida, part of PALM BEACH. Current enrollment sits at 695 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY is one of 233 schools operated by PALM BEACH, a district that teaches 191,505 students overall.
In terms of who attends, LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 41% White, 10% Black. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY reports 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 43% of students at LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 59.2%, a residual of -0.4 points.
In the broader community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Palm Beach County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: BINKS FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ELEMENTARY ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 68.9%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 16%: 600 students in 2018 compared to 695 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 27% to 46% over that span.
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