WEST GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 1545 LOXAHATCHEE DR, in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, WEST GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized K-5 school that works with 767 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by PALM BEACH. That puts it 27% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

WEST GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 233 schools operated by PALM BEACH, a district that enrolls 191,505 students overall.

On the student-mix side, WEST GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). The remainder breaks down as 10% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEST GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 42.5%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the area at large, Palm Beach County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, 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), WEST GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

FLORIDA FUTURES ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WEST GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 800 students in 2018 compared to 767 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the WEST GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.