LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 425 W CANAL ST N, in BELLE GLADE, Florida, LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small 6-8 campus that instructs 651 students (grades 6 through 8), run under PALM BEACH.

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

On the student-mix side, LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black, at 63% of enrollment; the rest looks like 32% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL records 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.1%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Palm Beach County put median household earnings sit near $83,581, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

The closest other public school is BELLE GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.2%.

LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 708 (now 651). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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