SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH

SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH is a 9-12 campus of rural-scale scale in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, run under PALM BEACH, instructing 309 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 70% leaner than the state mean of about 1,035.

SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH is one of 233 schools operated by PALM BEACH, a district that hosts 191,505 students overall.

Looking at the student body, SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH lists that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 10% White, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 41.7%, a residual of -11.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Palm Beach County) logs that median household earnings sit near $83,581, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

The closest other public school is SPORTS LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (SLAM) MIDDLE SCHOOL PALM, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH. On composite proficiency, SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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