UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY PALM BEACH

Located at 2101 N AUSTRALIAN AVE, in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY PALM BEACH is a small primary school that caters to 246 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within PALM BEACH. Enrollment runs roughly 59% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

PALM BEACH comprises 233 schools with combined enrollment of 191,505 students; UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY PALM BEACH is among them.

On the student-mix side, UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY PALM BEACH logs that nearly all students (91%) are Black. Other groups include 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Palm Beach County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY PALM BEACH is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.2%; UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY PALM BEACH posts 25.1%, -15.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Palm Beach County) reports that median household income runs about $83,581, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Palm Beach County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), of which UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY PALM BEACH is one.

The closest other public school is ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY PALM BEACH ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site. UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY PALM BEACH is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 257 students in 2018 compared to 246 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment rose from 81% to 91% over that span.

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