The top reported proficiency rate is 33% in Math. The lowest is 11% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Roosevelt Elementary School
Roosevelt Elementary sits in West Palm Beach on L.A. Kirksey Street, serving children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade within the countywide Palm Beach County School District. The school is a conventional public elementary, not a charter or magnet. Its enrollment is small for a school serving this grade band, spread fairly evenly across the primary grades.
The student body is predominantly Black, with Hispanic students making up a meaningful secondary share, and a small number of white and multiracial students. The overwhelming majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this firmly in the category of a high-poverty school by that measure. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what was provided.
Academic performance, as measured by Florida's FAST assessments in the most recent school year, is a frank concern. Proficiency rates in both reading and math fall well below what the state tests as a baseline, and the pattern holds across third, fourth, and fifth grade. In math, third graders score better than their fourth- and fifth-grade peers, but the trajectory across grades runs in the wrong direction. ELA results follow a similar shape. Fifth-grade science proficiency, measured by the Florida Statewide Science Assessment, is very low. Placed against other districts in Palm Beach County, Roosevelt's overall proficiency index lands in the bottom quartile of the comparison set. That comparison set is small, so a parent should weight this as directional rather than definitive, but the numbers themselves are consistent and speak plainly. A parent would be well-served asking the school directly about instructional supports, how reading intervention is structured, and what progress monitoring looks like for students who are behind. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say from this data alone whether the school is improving, holding steady, or declining.
There is no graduation rate to report here, which is expected: this school ends at fifth grade.
The school sits in a city that is changing quickly. West Palm Beach has undergone real downtown transformation, with a walkable Clematis Street corridor, a Brightline station, cultural venues like the Kravis Center and Norton Museum, and a sustained luxury residential construction wave along the Flagler Drive waterfront. None of that development is primarily aimed at families in the Roosevelt attendance zone, and the affordability picture is not easy. Home values in the ZIP code run well above the Florida state benchmark and well above national levels, and asking rents consume a very large share of local household income. Rent has been rising year over year even as home prices have edged down slightly. For families already in the neighborhood, these are costs already being absorbed; for anyone considering a move to this zone, the housing math warrants careful attention.
The major employers anchoring West Palm Beach are a mix of large public-sector institutions and a handful of private companies across finance, aerospace, and agriculture. The city is not a single-industry town, which provides some economic stability, though the publicly reported growth story is heavily weighted toward high-end development rather than broad affordability.
District-level information on recent instructional changes or strategic priorities for Palm Beach County schools was not available from the research conducted, so that piece of context is left out rather than guessed at.
Roosevelt is a neighborhood public elementary in a genuinely dynamic city, serving a student population that faces real economic pressure. The academic performance data as it stands is low, and families who are weighing this school against other options in Palm Beach County should go in clear-eyed about that, ask hard questions about how the school supports students who are not yet at grade level, and look for evidence of what the school's trajectory has been.
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