ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as an average-sized K-5 school in DELRAY BEACH, Florida, run under PALM BEACH. Current enrollment sits at 679 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

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

Demographically, ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that Black students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder looks like 22% Hispanic, 13% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Palm Beach County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.2%, the actual is 44.8%, a residual of -4.4 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Palm Beach County) logs that 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%. ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 58.2%.

ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has climbed 16% since 2018, when it stood at 583 (now 679). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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