PAHOKEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in PAHOKEE, Florida, PAHOKEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a modestly sized elementary campus, one of the schools within PALM BEACH. It enrolls 328 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so PAHOKEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 46% below that benchmark.

Across the 233 schools in PALM BEACH (191,505 students total), PAHOKEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, PAHOKEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Black, at 63% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 35% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at PAHOKEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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, PAHOKEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Palm Beach County indicate median household income runs about $83,581, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Palm Beach County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), of which PAHOKEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PAHOKEE MIDDLE-SENIOR HIGH, around 0.2 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PAHOKEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 27%: 449 students in 2018 compared to 328 in 2025.

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