MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a moderately sized elementary campus in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 813 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within PALM BEACH. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 35% above typical.

PALM BEACH runs 233 schools in total, collectively educating 191,505 students. MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%; the rest breaks down as 18% White, 7% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Palm Beach County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.4%, the actual is 64.9%, a residual of +10.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Palm Beach County shows median household earnings sit near $83,581, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 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 MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 46.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 4% since 2018, when it stood at 783 (now 813). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 65% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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