ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 1220 L A KIRKSEY ST, in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a modestly sized primary school that teaches 315 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under PALM BEACH. Enrollment runs roughly 48% smaller than the state mean of about 604.

PALM BEACH comprises 233 schools with combined enrollment of 191,505 students; ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 75% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, The school lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 41.9%; ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 24.0%, -17.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Palm Beach County shows median household earnings sit near $83,581, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.8%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 375 students in 2018 compared to 315 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 88% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.