SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 8650 BOYNTON BEACH BLVD, in BOYNTON BEACH, Florida, SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a roomy K-5 school that works with 909 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by PALM BEACH. Enrollment runs roughly 50% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

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

On the student-mix side, SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 67% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder is composed of 17% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 53% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 8% of students at SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Palm Beach County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 76.9%; this one delivers 80.6%.

Across the wider county, 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. Across Palm Beach County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WEST BOYNTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 66.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUNSET PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 8%, going from 990 students in 2018 to 909 in 2025.

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