CONGRESS COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in BOYNTON BEACH, Florida, CONGRESS COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized junior high, run under PALM BEACH. It instructs 845 students across grades 6 through 8.

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

On demographics, CONGRESS COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 72% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest breaks down as 18% Hispanic, 7% White. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, CONGRESS COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting CONGRESS COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 64% of students at CONGRESS COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Palm Beach County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, CONGRESS COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.3%; actual is 28.4%, a gap of -20.9 points.

In the broader community, Palm Beach County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,581, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. CONGRESS COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CONGRESS COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CONGRESS COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CONGRESS COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL has decreased 6%, going from 895 students in 2018 to 845 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 64% to 72% across the same window.

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