SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS HIGH SCHOOL

SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS HIGH SCHOOL operates as a moderately sized high school in BOYNTON BEACH, Florida, operated by PALM BEACH. Current enrollment sits at 1,024 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

PALM BEACH comprises 233 schools with combined enrollment of 191,505 students; SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS HIGH SCHOOL logs that 34% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 30% Black, 29% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS HIGH SCHOOL has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 43.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Palm Beach County's rate of about 45%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.5%.

In the broader community, Palm Beach County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,581, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Palm Beach County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. SOMERSET ACADEMY CANYONS HIGH SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 39%: 736 students in 2018 compared to 1,024 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 49% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 35.0:1 in 2018 to 43.8:1 in 2025.

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