ACADEMY FOR POSITIVE LEARNING

ACADEMY FOR POSITIVE LEARNING, a reasonably sized all-grades campus in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, operated by PALM BEACH, hosts students from the surrounding community, covering grade M.

Within PALM BEACH, which oversees 233 schools and 191,505 students, ACADEMY FOR POSITIVE LEARNING is one campus in the system.

On the income-and-resources front, ACADEMY FOR POSITIVE LEARNING runs at roughly 60.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Palm Beach County put median household income runs about $83,581, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. ACADEMY FOR POSITIVE LEARNING is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

Nearest neighbor: WORTHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. ACADEMY FOR POSITIVE LEARNING is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 5 years, enrollment at ACADEMY FOR POSITIVE LEARNING has decreased 25%, going from 131 students in 2018 to 98 in 2023. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 22% to 8%. Class-load math has grew: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 60.5:1 in 2023.

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