WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL

WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a sizable junior high in LAKE WORTH, Florida, part of PALM BEACH. Current enrollment sits at 1,307 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 65% bigger than the state mean of about 794.

PALM BEACH comprises 233 schools with combined enrollment of 191,505 students; WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 32% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 31% Hispanic, 30% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 53.8%, a residual of -7.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Palm Beach County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Palm Beach County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students), WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DR. JOAQUIN GARCIA HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 70.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL has rose 6%, going from 1,232 students in 2018 to 1,307 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 39% to 30% over that span.

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