Grove Park Elementary School, West Palm Beach FL

Original Research by School Decision on Grove Park Elementary School

Grove Park Elementary sits on North Military Trail in West Palm Beach, serving children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade within the Palm Beach County School District. The surrounding area is part of a city in active transformation: publicly reported accounts describe West Palm Beach as having shifted from a quieter commercial center into a downtown with walkable retail, dining, and cultural venues, with a wave of new residential towers rising along the waterfront and a former warehouse district north of downtown being converted into mixed-use space. That growth context matters for families thinking about housing. Home values in the zip code are well above both the state and national medians, and rents consume a substantial share of income at prevailing wage levels. Prices have edged slightly lower year-over-year, but the area remains an expensive market by any comparison. For families weighing whether to buy near this school, a parent should think carefully about affordability relative to their income.

The school draws a majority-Black student population, with a sizable Hispanic community and smaller shares of white, Asian, and multiracial students. A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places Grove Park among higher-poverty elementary schools. Data on English learner counts and students with IEPs was not available in the records we reviewed; a parent wanting detail on language support services or special education staffing would want to ask the school directly.

On the Florida statewide assessments, proficiency rates across grades and subjects land below the midpoint among districts in Palm Beach County. In reading and ELA, fewer than half of students in each tested grade scored at or above proficiency, with third grade showing the lowest reading result. Math results are somewhat stronger, with fourth grade approaching the halfway mark, though fifth grade pulls back below that. Science results at fifth grade are the lowest of any subject reported. Taken together, these numbers place Grove Park in the bottom quartile when its overall proficiency index is set against the other districts in Palm Beach County. That is a gap a parent should take seriously and ask the school about, specifically what instructional supports are in place for students who are not yet at grade level, and what the trend has looked like in recent years. Multi-year trend data was not available in the records we reviewed, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, steady, or declining.

No program offerings were listed in the data, so specific extracurricular activities, arts programming, or academic enrichment options are not described here. A parent would want to ask the school what is available beyond core instruction.

Chronic absenteeism and graduation rate metrics do not apply to an elementary school serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, so those are not gaps in the data, just a reflection of the grade band. Title I status was not confirmed in the records we reviewed, though the school's economic profile would typically make it eligible; a family interested in knowing whether federal Title I resources are in use at this campus should ask the district.

The Palm Beach County School District runs schools across a large, economically varied county, and we searched for recent district-level strategic priorities or changes that would be relevant to families but did not find confirmed information in time to include it. That is a gap worth filling through the district's own communications.

Grove Park is a neighborhood elementary school serving a predominantly low-income community in a high-cost city. The academic results are below the county's midpoint and warrant a direct conversation with school leadership about what the school is doing to move those numbers. The surrounding West Palm Beach community is changing rapidly, which shapes the housing picture but does not change the school's current performance profile.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 346%

School 46% · District 64% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 451%

School 51% · District 55% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 544%

School 44% · District 59% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 335%

School 35% · District 57% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 436%

School 36% · District 56% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 543%

School 43% · District 56% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Science

Grade 531%

School 31% · District 54% · ▼ 23 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

This schoolPALM BEACH, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income35%Higher-income35%1 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income35%Higher-income41%6 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income44%Higher-income43%1 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income43%Higher-income54%11 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income48%Higher-income59%11 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income50%Higher-income33%17 pp gap