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How has MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
806
Elementary
DISTRICT 685 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM BEACH·NCES 120150003468
MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
6201 MORIKAMI PARK RD, DELRAY BEACH, FL 33484 · (561) 894-7300 · Palm Beach County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL806 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
104 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 136 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 143 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 135 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 130 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 143 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 119 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (136) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (119).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
93.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.9pp since 2023
Math
97.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 98 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 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.3% | 97.6% |
| 2023-24 | 92.4% | 96.6% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
93.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 94% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 75% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (93.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 806 | 12.9% | 93.6% |
| WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY WINTER GARDEN | 774 | 14.7% | 86.9% |
| PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARKLAND | 981 | 10.2% | 79.3% |
| PANTHER RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE WORTH | 794 | 17.4% | 83.5% |
| BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITHIA | 826 | 15.1% | 87.4% |
| SANDERS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAND O LAKES | 842 | 10.7% | 75.3% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Palm Beach County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 93.6% | #7 of 2,136 | #1 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 97.6% | #4 of 2,149 ▼ 1 | #1 of 129 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.3% | #9 of 2,149 ▼ 4 | #1 of 129 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 806 | #453 of 2,267 | #45 of 133 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #1,374 of 2,077 | #105 of 128 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.8% | #645 of 2,108 | #36 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.9% | #2,090 of 2,188 | #128 of 130 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.2% | #618 of 621 | #47 of 47 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
806
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
-20% since 2000-01, when it was 1,002
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 15.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 806 | 48 | 16.8:1 | 13% (104) |
| 2023-24 | 804 | 47 | 17.1:1 | 16% (130) |
| 2022-23 | 802 | 51 | 15.7:1 | 16% (128) |
| 2020-21 | 801 | 51 | 15.7:1 | 21% (171) |
| 2017-18 | 804 | 60 | 13.4:1 | 20% (157) |
| 2015-16 | 808 | 61 | 13.3:1 | 20% (160) |
| 2010-11 | 830 | 56 | 14.8:1 | 20% (167) |
| 2000-01 | 1,002 | 48 | 20.9:1 | 24% (245) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
At 6201 MORIKAMI PARK RD in DELRAY BEACH, Florida, MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized elementary school. Total enrollment is 806 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Florida enroll about 604 students on average.
MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in PALM BEACH, a system of 233 schools with 191,505 students.
About 53% of the student body at MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White. Enrollment also includes 26% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% Black, and 6% multiracial. Palm Beach County residents are about 53% White, a similar share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 64, compared with 70 nationally.
With 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 16.8:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida is about 17.5:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 13% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 45% average among public schools in Palm Beach County.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 74.7% for MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 93.6%. The 18.9-point gap ranks in the top 10% of Florida schools.
Palm Beach County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $83,581 a year, roughly 41% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Palm Beach County with 244 other public schools.
The closest school to MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, located about 1.6 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Its average proficiency rate of 93.6% is above the 68.2% average for nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 806, starting from 801. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 15.7:1 in 2020-21 to 16.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Palm Beach County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,533,806
Census ACS
Median income
$83,581
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
192,831 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PALM BEACH
- JOHN I. LEONARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,262 students
- JUPITER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,122 students
- PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,881 students
- BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,819 students
- PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,809 students
- PALM BEACH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,760 students
Other schools in DELRAY BEACH
- ATLANTIC HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,810 students
- BANYAN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 875 students
- PLUMOSA SCHOOL OF THE ARTSElementary · 826 students
- CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 680 students
- ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 679 students
- VILLAGE ACADEMY ON THE ART & SARA JO KOBACKER CAMPUSCombined · 648 students
Nearby schools
- CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 858
- ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 679
- OMNI MIDDLE SCHOOL1.9 mi · 951
- SPANISH RIVER COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 2,730
- CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL3.0 mi · 680
- DON ESTRIDGE HIGH TECH MIDDLE SCHOOL3.2 mi · 1,270
Frequently asked questions
About MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 806 students in grades PK-05.
Is MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 48 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1.
What is the student diversity at MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 53% White, 26% Hispanic, 7% Black, 8% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PALM BEACH.
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