The South Olive School, 7101 S. Olive Ave.: grades pre-K-8, 644 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.

The South Olive School is a School District of Palm Beach County school on South Olive Avenue in the South End, inside West Palm Beach city limits, according to Palm Beach County’s municipal boundary map. The district now lists it as a K-8 school, though the federal directory’s 2023-24 record still shows it as an elementary school; the district’s choice guide lists a sixth-grade pre-engineering program there for 2026-27. The district’s school information lists it as opened in 1954, with the Tiger as its mascot.

Who to call
Address 7101 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach, FL 33405
Phone 561-202-0200
Grades Pre-K to 8
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 Saara Saarela-Vening, according to the district’s Schools & Principals list, which the school’s website links from its menu.

Enrollment and teachers

  • District count: 644 students, 46 of them in pre-K, on the 11th day of the 2026-27 school year (Aug. 24, 2026). The district rates the building for 709, so it is at 91% of capacity, according to its 11th Day Enrollment Report.
  • Federal count: 479 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 32 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 (70% 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: 62%
  • Third-grade English language arts: 59%
  • Math: 77%
  • Science (fifth grade): 72%
  • Learning gains: 74% 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

Check any address with the district’s Find My School map or the South Olive zone map (PDF). Matching the district’s boundary map against Palm Beach County’s address records, about 5% of the homes inside West Palm Beach city limits, roughly 3,000, are zoned for South Olive. Our South End neighborhood guide and neighborhoods guide list the zoned schools street by street.

Under the district’s 2026-27 feeder report, all four of South Olive’s planning areas go on to Conniston Community Middle and then Forest Hill Community High.

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 South Olive’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 South Olive’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 these at South Olive:

  • Engineering and Technology Exploration, an in-house program open to students zoned for the school
  • Pre-Engineering (Gateway to Technology), for sixth grade only, new for 2026-27

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 South Olive serve?

Pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. It is a School District of Palm Beach County school at 7101 S. Olive Ave., inside West Palm Beach city limits.

What is South Olive’s school grade?

The South Olive School earned an A in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 70% of possible points. It earned a B in 2025 and a B in 2024.

Which middle and high school does South Olive feed into?

All of South Olive’s planning areas go on to Conniston Community Middle and then Forest Hill Community High, under the district’s 2026-27 feeder report.

What time does South Olive start?

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