Palm Beach Gardens Elementary, 10060 Riverside Drive: pre-K to grade 5, 675 students on the Aug. 24 district count and an A in Florida's 2026 grades.

Updated Oct. 17: Palm Beach Gardens Elementary is one of 45 Palm Beach County public schools the state named a 2026 School of Excellence, the district announced Oct. 14. Read our story.

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.

Palm Beach Gardens Elementary is a School District of Palm Beach County elementary school on Riverside Drive, in the city’s original neighborhoods around Burns Road and inside city limits, according to the district’s municipal boundary map. The district’s school information lists it as opened in 1962, with the Dolphin as its mascot. Its motto, on the school’s website, is “Educate. Affirm. Inspire.”

Who to call
Address 10060 Riverside Drive, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
Phone 561-366-6500
Grades Pre-K to 5
School day 8 a.m. to 2:05 p.m.
District School District of Palm Beach County

Principal

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

Enrollment and teachers

  • District count: 675 students, 40 of them in pre-K, on the 11th day of the 2026-27 school year (Aug. 24, 2026). The district rates the building for 739, so it is at 91% of capacity, according to its 11th Day Enrollment Report.
  • Federal count: 734 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 17 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 A
2023-24 A
2022-23 A (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: 75%
  • Third-grade English language arts: 80%
  • Math: 84%
  • Science (fifth grade): 69%
  • Learning gains: 67% in English and 74% 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 Palm Beach Gardens Elementary zone map (PDF). Matching the district’s boundary map against Palm Beach County’s address records, about 9% of the homes inside Palm Beach Gardens city limits, roughly 3,100, are zoned for the school, and almost all of its zone is inside the city. Our neighborhood guides list the original plats and Palm Beach Square in the Burns Road and Holly Drive area and PGA Station in the Regional Center. Neighbors to the east are zoned for Allamanda Elementary, and west of Military Trail for Timber Trace Elementary.

Under the district’s 2026-27 feeder report, four of the school’s six planning areas go on to Watson B. Duncan Middle and two to Howell L. Watkins Middle. All six go on to Palm Beach Gardens Community High, about two-thirds of a mile west on Holly Drive.

No rezoning approved for 2026-27 affects the school. The School Board’s only boundary change, Boundary Study RB-1, adopted March 11, 2026, covers elementary schools in Riviera Beach, according to the district’s enrollment and boundaries page.

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 the school’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 science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) choice program at Palm Beach Gardens Elementary. The school’s choice program page says each grade works on yearlong projects such as hydroponic, butterfly and vegetable gardens, and that the program uses a 3D printer. The district says elementary choice programs have no entry requirements; applications go through its school choice office. The school also runs a VPK program and lists after-school programs.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Palm Beach Gardens Elementary serve?

Kindergarten through fifth grade, plus a pre-K program: the district’s Aug. 24 count lists 40 pre-K students among its 675.

What is Palm Beach Gardens Elementary’s school grade?

Palm Beach Gardens Elementary earned an A in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 73% of possible points. It has earned an A in every graded year since 2018.

Which middle and high school does Palm Beach Gardens Elementary feed into?

Watson B. Duncan Middle for four of its six planning areas and Howell L. Watkins Middle for two, under the district’s 2026-27 feeder report. All six go on to Palm Beach Gardens Community High.

What time does Palm Beach Gardens Elementary start?

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