SOUTH OLIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SOUTH OLIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a close-knit K-5 school in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, operated by PALM BEACH. Current enrollment sits at 504 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

SOUTH OLIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 233 schools operated by PALM BEACH, a district that serves 191,505 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SOUTH OLIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 34% White, 6% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTH OLIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 60.3%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Palm Beach County) logs that median household income runs about $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), SOUTH OLIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOUTH OLIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 49.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTH OLIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 11%, going from 565 students in 2018 to 504 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 39% to 34% across the same window.

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