PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOL

PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOL, a high-enrollment four-year high school in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, run under PALM BEACH, caters to 2,809 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOL sits 171% bigger than that benchmark.

PALM BEACH runs 233 schools in total, collectively educating 191,505 students. PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOL logs that 59% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 35% Hispanic, 4% White. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 129 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Palm Beach County's rate of about 45%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 51.5%; PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOL posts 35.0%, -16.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Palm Beach County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,581, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SEAGULL ACADEMY, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 57.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOL has climbed 16%, going from 2,420 students in 2018 to 2,809 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 23% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

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