WESTERN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

Set in ROYAL PALM BEACH, Florida, WESTERN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary school, one of the schools within PALM BEACH. It enrolls 711 students across grades K through 8.

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

Looking at the student body, WESTERN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 34% Hispanic, 14% Black, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 53% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, WESTERN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, WESTERN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.6%, the actual is 81.6%, a residual of +11.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Palm Beach County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Palm Beach County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), WESTERN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

WELLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WESTERN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WESTERN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 58.0%.

WESTERN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location. WESTERN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. WESTERN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 42% since 2018, when it stood at 500 (now 711). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 24% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.

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