PALM BAY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 6-12

PALM BAY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 6-12 operates as a rural-scale four-year high school in PANAMA CITY, Florida, run under BAY. Current enrollment sits at 203 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 80% below typical.

PALM BAY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 6-12 is one of 47 schools operated by BAY, a district that educates 27,494 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PALM BAY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 6-12 logs that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 30% Hispanic, 19% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Bay County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PALM BAY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 6-12 lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bay County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PALM BAY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 6-12 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.8%, the actual is 58.7%, a residual of +4.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bay County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,533 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Bay County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,672 students), of which PALM BAY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 6-12 is one.

The closest other public school is PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PALM BAY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 6-12 comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. PALM BAY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 6-12 operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. PALM BAY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 6-12's enrollment has fell 37% since 2018, when it stood at 322 (now 203). White enrollment moved from 73% to 42% across the same window.

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