CRESTWOOD COMMUNITY MIDDLE

CRESTWOOD COMMUNITY MIDDLE is a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in ROYAL PALM BEACH, Florida, part of PALM BEACH. The school instructs 752 students in grades 6 through 8.

CRESTWOOD COMMUNITY MIDDLE is one of 233 schools operated by PALM BEACH, a district that instructs 191,505 students overall.

On demographics, CRESTWOOD COMMUNITY MIDDLE shows that 41% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 34% Hispanic, 18% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, CRESTWOOD COMMUNITY MIDDLE logs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, CRESTWOOD COMMUNITY MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.0%, the actual is 57.5%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Palm Beach County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,581, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Palm Beach County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), CRESTWOOD COMMUNITY MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CYPRESS TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CRESTWOOD COMMUNITY MIDDLE at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 62.1%.

CRESTWOOD COMMUNITY MIDDLE operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 738 students in 2018 compared to 752 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 18% across the same window.

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