PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL

PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-grades school of sizable scale in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, run under PALM BEACH, works with 1,397 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 76% above the state mean of about 794.

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

On the student-mix side, PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 19% Black, 8% White. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL has 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Palm Beach County's rate of about 45%.

With demographic context factored in, PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 46.2%, a residual of -4.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Palm Beach County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Palm Beach County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BERKSHIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 46.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL has shrank 15%, going from 1,643 students in 2018 to 1,397 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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