VILLAGE ACADEMY ON THE ART & SARA JO KOBACKER CAMPUS

Located at 400 SW 12TH AVE, in DELRAY BEACH, Florida, VILLAGE ACADEMY ON THE ART & SARA JO KOBACKER CAMPUS is a well-populated multi-level school that enrolls 648 students (grades pre-K through 12), operated by PALM BEACH. Enrollment runs roughly 84% larger than the state mean of about 353.

PALM BEACH runs 233 schools in total, collectively educating 191,505 students. VILLAGE ACADEMY ON THE ART & SARA JO KOBACKER CAMPUS is one of those campuses.

Demographically, VILLAGE ACADEMY ON THE ART & SARA JO KOBACKER CAMPUS lists that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder reads as 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, VILLAGE ACADEMY ON THE ART & SARA JO KOBACKER CAMPUS logs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting VILLAGE ACADEMY ON THE ART & SARA JO KOBACKER CAMPUS tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, VILLAGE ACADEMY ON THE ART & SARA JO KOBACKER CAMPUS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.6%; this one delivers 40.7%.

In the broader community, Palm Beach County reports that median household income runs about $83,581, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. VILLAGE ACADEMY ON THE ART & SARA JO KOBACKER CAMPUS is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

PINE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VILLAGE ACADEMY ON THE ART & SARA JO KOBACKER CAMPUS. On composite proficiency, VILLAGE ACADEMY ON THE ART & SARA JO KOBACKER CAMPUS comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 19%: 800 students in 2018 compared to 648 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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