HOWELL L. WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida, HOWELL L. WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a reasonably sized junior high, run under PALM BEACH. It hosts 705 students across grades 6 through 8.

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

In terms of who attends, HOWELL L. WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black, at 70% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 19% Hispanic, 8% White. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 67% of students at HOWELL L. WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HOWELL L. WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.5%, the actual is 39.3%, a residual of -8.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Palm Beach County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. HOWELL L. WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

PALM BEACH VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOWELL L. WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. HOWELL L. WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 954 (now 705). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 13% to 19% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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