Public school / Primary
Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune Elementary
Riviera Beach, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120150004410
- District
- Palm Beach
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune Elementary is a public primary school in Riviera Beach, Florida, run by Palm Beach. It enrols 540 students — the 32639th largest of 4,334 public schools in Florida.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
540
Teachers
34.0
Students per teacher
15.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
87.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Palm Beach
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1John I. Leonard High School3,549 students
- 2Park Vista Community High School3,191 students
- 3Jupiter High School3,087 students
- 4Palm Beach Central High School2,980 students
- 5Boca Raton Community High School2,973 students
- 6Palm Beach Lakes High School2,688 students
- 7Wellington High School2,688 students
- 8Lake Worth High School2,683 students
- Enrollment−12.1%
- Teachers−10.5%
- Students per teacher−5.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+51.7%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory