BOCA RATON COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL

BOCA RATON COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the mid-sized junior highs in BOCA RATON, Florida, operated by PALM BEACH, with 1,058 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 33% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

Across the 233 schools in PALM BEACH (191,505 students total), BOCA RATON COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, BOCA RATON COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 35% Hispanic, 20% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 53% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, BOCA RATON COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting BOCA RATON COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, BOCA RATON COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.4%, the actual is 60.4%, a residual of -2.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Palm Beach County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. BOCA RATON COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

Nearest neighbor: BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BOCA RATON COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 74.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 32%: 1,560 students in 2018 compared to 1,058 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 50% to 39%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for BOCA RATON COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.