POINCIANA STEM ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL

POINCIANA STEM ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is one of the tight-knit K-5 schools in BOYNTON BEACH, Florida, one of the schools within PALM BEACH, with 430 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 29% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

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

Looking at the student body, POINCIANA STEM ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 77%; the rest breaks down as 10% Hispanic, 7% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, POINCIANA STEM ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.7%, the actual is 57.5%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Palm Beach County indicate 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%. In all, Palm Beach County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), of which POINCIANA STEM ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is one.

GALAXY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, POINCIANA STEM ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at POINCIANA STEM ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL has edged down 24%, going from 567 students in 2018 to 430 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 48% to 77% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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