MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in DELRAY BEACH, Florida, run under PALM BEACH, hosting 806 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% above the state mean of about 604.

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

On demographics, MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 26% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 74.7%; actual is 93.6%, +18.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Palm Beach County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Palm Beach County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 68.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 804 students in 2018 to 806 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 58% to 53% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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