Palmetto Elementary, 5801 Parker Ave.: grades pre-K-5, 500 students on the district's Aug. 24 count and an A 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.

Palmetto Elementary is a School District of Palm Beach County elementary school on Parker Avenue in the south end of the city, inside West Palm Beach city limits, according to Palm Beach County’s municipal boundary map. The district’s school information says the building was replaced in 2002; the mascot is the Panther.

Who to call
Address 5801 Parker Ave., West Palm Beach, FL 33405
Phone 561-202-0400
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 Kristina Sanford, according to the district’s Schools & Principals list, which the school’s website links from its menu.

Enrollment and teachers

  • District count: 500 students, 38 of them in pre-K, on the 11th day of the 2026-27 school year (Aug. 24, 2026). The district rates the building for 882, so it is at 57% of capacity, according to its 11th Day Enrollment Report.
  • Federal count: 537 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 15 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 A (73% of possible points)
2024-25 B
2023-24 B
2022-23 C (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: 68%
  • Third-grade English language arts: 56%
  • Math: 71%
  • Science (fifth grade): 57%
  • Learning gains: 81% in English and 82% 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

Check any address with the district’s Find My School map or the Palmetto zone map (PDF). Matching the district’s boundary map against Palm Beach County’s address records, about 6% of the homes inside West Palm Beach city limits, roughly 3,700, are zoned for Palmetto. Our Dreher Park neighborhood guide and neighborhoods guide list the zoned schools street by street.

Under the district’s 2026-27 feeder report, Palmetto’s 13 planning areas split this way:

Middle school High school Planning areas
Conniston Community Middle Forest Hill Community High 9
Jeaga Middle Palm Beach Lakes Community High 4

The School Board’s only boundary change for 2026-27, Boundary Study RB-1, adopted March 11, 2026, redrew elementary zones in Riviera Beach, according to the district’s enrollment and boundaries page. It did not change Palmetto’s zone.

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 Palmetto’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 an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme at Palmetto. The school’s website calls it its “Choice Program: International Baccalaureate.”

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 Palmetto serve?

Pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. It is a School District of Palm Beach County school at 5801 Parker Ave., inside West Palm Beach city limits.

What is Palmetto’s school grade?

Palmetto Elementary earned an A in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 73% of possible points. It earned a B in 2025 and a B in 2024.

Which middle and high school does Palmetto feed into?

It depends on the address. Of Palmetto’s 13 planning areas, the district’s 2026-27 feeder report sends them to Conniston Community Middle (9) and Jeaga Middle (4) for middle school, then Forest Hill Community High (9) and Palm Beach Lakes Community High (4) for high school.

What time does Palmetto start?

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