66 out of 10GreatSchools

Poinciana Elementary School

Boynton Beach, FL
  • Public
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  • Grades PK-5
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  • Enrollment: 567

Overview

Poinciana Elementary School
1203 North Seacrest Boulevard
Boynton Beach, FL 33435
(561) 739-5700
Poinciana Elementary School is located in Boynton Beach, FL and serves grades PK-5.It received a GreatSchool rating of 6 out of 10
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Student Diversity

Race

Percentage

Two or more races
7%
Asian
7%
Hispanic
14%
White
23%
Black
48%
Other
1%

Reviews11 Reviews

4.0
parent
Good experience. My son attended for grades 3-5 and graduated May 2019. Diverse student body. Teachers and principal that know students and care. I recommend Poinciana Elementary.
parent
My son and daughter love attending. They are doing very well academically and socially.
parent
This is a great school!! The gifted program is awesome! The principal , teachers and staff are wonderful. Teachers communicate well. Lots of school activities and fundraising . There's nothing not to like! Your child will get a solid education at this school.
parent
There are MANY great teachers at this school. Some of the other reviewers seem to have encountered the few bad apples, but they are the exception, not the norm. And I know people who have switched classes due to a teacher they didn't get along with.The first few years my child was at Poinciana, I would have given five stars without a second thought. Unfortunately, the new principal (as of 2013) has not made a great impression. She seems nice enough, but has a very affected manner, which comes across as kind of phony (and it's not just me that thinks so). More importantly, she seems to be really enamored of nonsense rules. For example, she arbitrarily implemented a dress code -- not a uniform (which I could understand), but simply a very strict dress code. For example, no jeans allowed. It might make sense for bank employees, but not for elementary students. The explanation of having "one school culture" is disturbing to me -- there's a difference between teaching responsibility/ respect and teaching conformity. And this year, as a fundraiser, they're selling passes that let kids break the dress code on certain days. This makes even less sense, especially for a school in a depressed neighborhood. And the dress code is just one example. They've also decided that parents cannot drop kids off at the adjacent community center, for nebulous "safety reasons." Never mind the fact that no child has ever been hurt there, or that the main dropoff line can already take over ten minutes (and will be worse now, with all the kids who would otherwise get dropped off at the center). It seems like more rules for the sake of having more rules.Again, my child has had six great teachers at Poinciana, and so have most of the other kids we know there. And the facilities, like the planetarium (a real one, museum-style) and robotics lab, are great. But the school just ain't what it used to be.When my child started here, people LOVED this school. In fact, parents whose kids had already graduated came back to continue volunteering. That love has been squandered by the current administration.There are still things to love about this school -- the teachers and the facilities are the most important things, after all -- but it hasn't been heading in a good direction for the past couple of years. Hopefully they can turn things around instead of continuing down the current path.
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