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ROYAL PALM BEACH HIGH SCHOOL
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Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-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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