GARDENS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS INC

Set in PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida, GARDENS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS INC is a tight-knit K-5 school, part of PALM BEACH. It educates 303 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 50% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

PALM BEACH runs 233 schools in total, collectively educating 191,505 students. GARDENS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS INC is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, GARDENS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS INC records that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 27% Hispanic, 21% White, 4% multiracial. 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, GARDENS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS INC has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 28.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Palm Beach County's rate of about 45%.

With demographic context factored in, GARDENS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS INC falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 72.9%; this one comes in at 49.7%, -23.2 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Palm Beach County indicate median household income runs about $83,581, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Palm Beach County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), GARDENS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS INC is one campus in the mix.

HOWELL L. WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GARDENS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS INC at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 50.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting. GARDENS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS INC operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 337 students in 2018 compared to 303 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 29% to 45% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 28.9:1 in 2025.

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