Timber Trace Elementary, 5200 117th Court North: grades K-5, 820 students on the district's Aug. 24 count and an A in Florida's 2026 grades.

Updated Oct. 17: Timber Trace 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.

Timber Trace Elementary is a School District of Palm Beach County elementary school on 117th Court North, next door to Watson B. Duncan Middle and inside Palm Beach Gardens city limits, according to the district’s municipal boundary map. More of the city’s homes are zoned for Timber Trace than for any other elementary school. The district’s school information lists it as opened in 1990, with the Tiger as its mascot.

Who to call
Address 5200 117th Court North, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418
Phone 561-366-6200
Grades Kindergarten to 5
School day 8 a.m. to 2:05 p.m.
District School District of Palm Beach County

Principal

Principal Kathy Pasquariello, according to the district’s Schools & Principals list, which the school’s website links from its menu. The school posts a message from the principal on attendance and safety for the new school year.

Enrollment and teachers

  • District count: 820 students, four of them in pre-K, on the 11th day of the 2026-27 school year (Aug. 24, 2026). The district rates the building for 1,013, so it is at 81% of capacity, according to its 11th Day Enrollment Report.
  • Federal count: 834 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 55 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 (80% 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: 83%
  • Third-grade English language arts: 85%
  • Math: 90%
  • Science (fifth grade): 73%
  • Learning gains: 79% in English and 79% 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 Timber Trace zone map (PDF). Matching the district’s boundary map against Palm Beach County’s address records, about 36% of the homes inside Palm Beach Gardens city limits, roughly 12,300, are zoned for Timber Trace. Our neighborhood guides list all of PGA National and BallenIsles, most of the Central Boulevard and Hood Road area, the part of the Burns Road area west of Military Trail, and The Isles and Plat 4 in the Evergrene and Frenchman’s Creek area.

All 12 Timber Trace planning areas go on to Duncan Middle, under the district’s 2026-27 feeder report. After that the zone splits: eight areas go to Palm Beach Gardens Community High and four to William T. Dwyer High. Our Central Boulevard guide shows how that area splits between the two high schools.

No rezoning approved for 2026-27 affects Timber Trace. 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 Timber Trace’s day as 8 a.m. to 2:05 p.m., while Duncan Middle next door runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:05 p.m.

Programs

The district’s 2026-27 Choice and In-House Programs guide (PDF) lists a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) choice program at Timber Trace, marked as new. The school’s choice program page says STEM topics run through reading, writing and social studies, with science, math and Lego robotics labs. The district says elementary choice programs have no entry requirements; applications go through its school choice office.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Timber Trace Elementary serve?

Kindergarten through fifth grade, according to the School District of Palm Beach County. Its Aug. 24 count also lists four pre-K students.

What is Timber Trace Elementary’s school grade?

Timber Trace Elementary earned an A in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 80% of possible points. It has earned an A in every graded year since 2000.

Which middle and high school does Timber Trace feed into?

All 12 of its planning areas go on to Watson B. Duncan Middle. Eight then go to Palm Beach Gardens Community High and four to William T. Dwyer High, under the district’s 2026-27 feeder report.

What time does Timber Trace Elementary start?

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