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Enrollment
909
Elementary
DISTRICT 685 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM BEACH·NCES 120150007561
SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
8650 BOYNTON BEACH BLVD, BOYNTON BEACH, FL 33472 · (561) 752-1100 · Palm Beach County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL909 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
8%
77 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 134 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 150 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 133 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 155 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 170 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 166 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (134) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (166).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
79.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.2pp since 2023
Math
81.1%
FL avg 58.9% . -2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.9% | 81.1% |
| 2023-24 | 78.8% | 83.7% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
80.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 77% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (80.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 909 | 8.5% | 80.6% |
| FISHHAWK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITHIA | 921 | 12.2% | 78.6% |
| VIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VIERA | 885 | 8.5% | 86.8% |
| KENNETH E. ADUM PK-8 MAGNET SCHOOL TAMPA | 1,007 | 13.4% | N/A |
| MARSH POINTE ELEMENTARY PALM BEACH GARDENS | 820 | 13.8% | 85.8% |
| KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 740 | 13.8% | 78.7% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Palm Beach County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.6% | #141 of 2,136 | #16 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.1% | #251 of 2,149 ▼ 114 | #16 of 129 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.9% | #156 of 2,149 ▼ 14 | #13 of 129 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 909 | #294 of 2,267 | #26 of 133 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #472 of 2,077 | #41 of 128 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.9% | #1,326 of 2,108 | #75 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.5% | #2,139 of 2,188 | #130 of 130 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.2% | #1,035 of 1,374 | #54 of 77 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
909
-47 (-5%) vs 2020
-9% since 2010-11, when it was 1,001
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 909 | 63 | 14.4:1 | 8% (77) |
| 2023-24 | 952 | 62.5 | 15.2:1 | 13% (122) |
| 2022-23 | 920 | 62 | 14.8:1 | 13% (122) |
| 2020-21 | 956 | 63 | 15.2:1 | 18% (174) |
| 2017-18 | 990 | 69 | 14.3:1 | 18% (175) |
| 2015-16 | 1,099 | 73 | 15.1:1 | 18% (200) |
| 2010-11 | 1,001 | 64 | 15.6:1 | 17% (170) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in BOYNTON BEACH, Florida, reachable at (561) 752-1100. The school has 909 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Florida enroll about 604 students on average.
PALM BEACH has 191,505 students in 233 schools, and SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White (67%). Next come 17% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% Asian, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 53% White among all Palm Beach County residents. The diversity index for SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 51%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reported 63 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 14.4:1. The gap from the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is 3.0 students per teacher. Roughly 8% of students at SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Palm Beach County is 45%.
The model predicts 76.9% for a school in Florida with SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 80.6%.
The school's county is Palm Beach County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $83,581 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 41% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Palm Beach County with 244 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, WEST BOYNTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.1 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st of 9 on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 47 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Palm Beach County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,533,806
Census ACS
Median income
$83,581
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
192,831 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PALM BEACH
- JOHN I. LEONARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,262 students
- JUPITER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,122 students
- PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,881 students
- BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,819 students
- PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,809 students
- PALM BEACH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,760 students
Other schools in BOYNTON BEACH
- BOYNTON BEACH COMMUNITY HIGHHigh · 1,559 students
- FRANKLIN ACADEMY - BOYNTON BEACHElementary · 1,247 students
- SOUTH TECH ACADEMYHigh · 1,141 students
- CITRUS COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,137 students
- CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,079 students
- IMAGINE SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR CAMPUSElementary · 1,047 students
Nearby schools
- WEST BOYNTON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 896
- SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,024
- SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 597
- HAGEN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 745
- BEN GAMLA-PALM BEACH2.7 mi · 229
- SOUTH TECH ACADEMY2.7 mi · 1,141
Frequently asked questions
About SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 909 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 67% White, 17% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by PALM BEACH in Palm Beach County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.