OSCEOLA CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 6775 180TH AVE N, in LOXAHATCHEE, Florida, OSCEOLA CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle-grades school that instructs 851 students (grades 6 through 8), part of PALM BEACH.

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

In terms of who attends, OSCEOLA CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 38% White, 16% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, OSCEOLA CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OSCEOLA CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.3%; this one delivers 62.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Palm Beach County) records that median household earnings sit near $83,581, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Palm Beach County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), of which OSCEOLA CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

FRONTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around OSCEOLA CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, OSCEOLA CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. OSCEOLA CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 17% since 2018, when it stood at 728 (now 851). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 53% to 38% over that span.

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