Wellington Elementary, 13000 Paddock Drive: pre-K to grade 5, 838 students on Aug. 24, 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, start times and 11th Day Enrollment Report, Palm Beach County’s address records, the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades file and the federal NCES school directory.

Wellington Elementary is a School District of Palm Beach County elementary school, inside the village of Wellington, according to Palm Beach County’s municipal boundary map. The district’s school listing says it opened in 1981; its mascot is the Wildcat. About 20% of the homes in the village are zoned for it, and the district counted 838 students on Aug. 24.

Who to call
Address 13000 Paddock Drive, Wellington, FL 33414
Phone 561-651-0600
Grades Pre-K to 5
School day 8 a.m. to 2:05 p.m.
Village limits Inside the village of Wellington
District School District of Palm Beach County

Principal

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

Enrollment and teachers

  • District count: 838 students, 72 of them in pre-K, on the 11th day of the 2026-27 school year (Aug. 24, 2026). The district rates the building for 1,022, so it is at 82% of capacity, according to its 11th Day Enrollment Report.
  • Federal count: 935 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 55 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 (67% 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: 71%
  • Third-grade English language arts: 77%
  • Math: 74%
  • Science (fifth grade): 72%
  • Learning gains: 64% in English and 69% 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

Matching the district’s boundary maps against Palm Beach County’s address records, about 20% of the homes inside the village, roughly 4,900, are zoned for Wellington Elementary. Check any address with the district’s Find My School map or the Wellington Elementary zone map (PDF). Our neighborhood guides for Big Blue Trace, Equestrian Preserve, Greenview Shores, MidTowne and North of Forest Hill cover the schools that serve those streets.

Under the district’s 2026-27 feeder report, all 12 of Wellington Elementary’s planning areas go on to Wellington Landings Middle and then Wellington 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; no Wellington school’s zone changed, 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 Wellington Elementary’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 an Arts (Visual, Performing and Communications) choice program at Wellington Elementary, open to students countywide. Families apply through the district’s school choice office; seats are assigned by lottery.

More on Wellington schools

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Wellington Elementary serve?

Pre-K through fifth grade. It is a School District of Palm Beach County elementary school at 13000 Paddock Drive.

What is Wellington Elementary’s school grade?

Wellington Elementary earned an A in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 67% of possible points.

Which middle and high school does Wellington Elementary feed into?

Under the district’s 2026-27 feeder report, its planning areas go on to Wellington Landings Middle and then Wellington Community High.

What time does Wellington Elementary start?

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