MELALEUCA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MELALEUCA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of mid-sized scale in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, part of PALM BEACH, serveing 664 students in grades K through 5.

PALM BEACH comprises 233 schools with combined enrollment of 191,505 students; MELALEUCA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MELALEUCA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 21% Black, 10% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting MELALEUCA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 66% of students at MELALEUCA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MELALEUCA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.9%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Palm Beach County indicate median household income runs about $83,581, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MELALEUCA 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 PINE JOG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MELALEUCA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 756 students in 2018 compared to 664 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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