LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a compact elementary school in LAKE PARK, Florida, run under PALM BEACH. Current enrollment sits at 389 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 36% leaner than that benchmark.

Within PALM BEACH, which oversees 233 schools and 191,505 students, LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 75% of enrollment; the rest consists of 18% Hispanic, 4% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 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. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 45.1%, a residual of +0.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Palm Beach County shows median household income runs about $83,581, 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 LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is INLET GROVE 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 LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 54.8%.

LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 4%: 374 students in 2018 compared to 389 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 5% to 18% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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