WEST RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WEST RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized K-5 school in RIVIERA BEACH, Florida, one of the schools within PALM BEACH, enrolls 524 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, WEST RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 66% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 21% Hispanic, 8% Native American, 2% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Palm Beach County's rate of about 45%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEST RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.1%; WEST RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 25.4%, -16.8 points below that line.

Around the school, Palm Beach County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Palm Beach County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), of which WEST RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

BODWELL ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WEST RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.

WEST RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WEST RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 16%, going from 627 students in 2018 to 524 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 79% to 66%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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