ROSENWALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ROSENWALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of compact scale in SOUTH BAY, Florida, run under PALM BEACH, hosting 267 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 56% 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. ROSENWALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, ROSENWALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (87%) are Black. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ROSENWALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting ROSENWALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROSENWALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 49.2%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Palm Beach County shows median household earnings sit near $83,581, 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), ROSENWALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

GLADES CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ROSENWALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROSENWALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 264 students in 2018 to 267 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 25% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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