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ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL
ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL is one of the substantial 9-12 campuss in ROYAL PALM BEACH, Florida, overseen by PALM BEACH, with 2,353 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL sits 127% larger than that benchmark.
ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL is one of 233 schools operated by PALM BEACH, a district that works with 191,505 students overall.
In terms of who attends, ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL logs that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 35% Hispanic, 13% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
On the income-and-resources front, ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL shows 124 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 48% of students at ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.3%; this one delivers 45.5%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Palm Beach County) reports that 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), ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
CRESTWOOD COMMUNITY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.0%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL has expanded 7%, going from 2,199 students in 2018 to 2,353 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.
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