Northboro Elementary, 400 40th St.: grades pre-K-5, 719 students on the district's Aug. 24 count and a B in Florida's 2026 grades.

Last checked Oct. 10, 2026. Sources: the school’s website, the School District of Palm Beach County’s Schools & Principals list, zone maps and feeder reports and start times, Palm Beach County’s address records, the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades file and the federal NCES school directory.

Northboro Elementary is a School District of Palm Beach County elementary school on 40th Street in the north end of the city, inside West Palm Beach city limits, according to Palm Beach County’s municipal boundary map. It is the district’s Montessori choice school for the area and has no attendance zone of its own in the district’s 2026-27 feeder report. The district’s school information lists it as opened in 1916, with the Mustang as its mascot. Its Aug. 24 count included 140 pre-K students, the most of any school on this list.

Who to call
Address 400 40th St., West Palm Beach, FL 33407
Phone 561-494-1600
Grades Pre-K to 5
School day 8 a.m. to 2:05 p.m.
City limits Inside West Palm Beach
District School District of Palm Beach County

Principal

Principal Chanda Kinlaw, according to the district’s Schools & Principals list, which the school’s website links from its menu.

Enrollment and teachers

  • District count: 719 students, 140 of them in pre-K, on the 11th day of the 2026-27 school year (Aug. 24, 2026). The district rates the building for 970, so it is at 74% of capacity, according to its 11th Day Enrollment Report.
  • Federal count: 753 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 14 students per teacher.

State report card

Florida grades every public school A to F, from the share of possible points it earns on state test results in English, math and science and on learning gains, including the gains of the lowest-scoring quarter of students.

School year Grade
2025-26 B (61% of possible points)
2024-25 B
2023-24 B
2022-23 B (informational baseline)

From the state’s 2026 school grades file, the share of students scoring on grade level on the state tests in 2025-26:

  • English language arts: 57%
  • Third-grade English language arts: 48%
  • Math: 75%
  • Science (fifth grade): 72%
  • Learning gains: 65% in English and 70% in math

The full report card is on the state’s Florida school report cards site, an interactive dashboard; the figures above come from the downloadable file.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Northboro has no planning areas in the district’s 2026-27 feeder report and is not one of the zones on the district’s elementary zone map list, so no address is zoned for it. Homes around the school are zoned for Northmore Elementary. Check any address with the district’s Find My School map.

Calendar and bell times

From the district’s 2026-27 key dates:

  • Monday, Oct. 12: no school for students; the second quarter starts Tuesday, Oct. 13
  • Tuesday, Nov. 3: no school for students
  • Wednesday, Nov. 11: fall holiday
  • Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1, 2027: winter break; Monday, Jan. 4, is also a day off for students

The district’s start and end times list Northboro’s day as 8 a.m. to 2:05 p.m.

Programs

The district’s 2026-27 Choice and In-House Programs guide (PDF) lists a Montessori choice program at Northboro for pre-K 3, pre-K 4 and kindergarten to fifth grade. The school’s website calls it its “Choice Program: Montessori.”

The district says elementary choice programs have no entry requirements except the International Spanish Academy and Spanish Dual Language programs, which assess Spanish. Applications go through its school choice office.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Northboro serve?

Pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. It is a School District of Palm Beach County school at 400 40th St., inside West Palm Beach city limits.

What is Northboro’s school grade?

Northboro Elementary earned a B in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 61% of possible points. It earned a B in 2025 and a B in 2024.

What time does Northboro start?

The district lists the school day as 8 a.m. to 2:05 p.m.