CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE SCHOOL

CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack middle school in BOYNTON BEACH, Florida, one of the schools within PALM BEACH. The school works with 1,079 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 36% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

PALM BEACH comprises 233 schools with combined enrollment of 191,505 students; CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 17% Black, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 53% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Palm Beach County's rate of about 45%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Palm Beach County) records that median household income runs about $83,581, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Palm Beach County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), of which CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

BEN GAMLA-PALM BEACH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 66.5%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 1,271 students in 2018 compared to 1,079 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 58% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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