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PALM BEACH

West Palm Beach, Florida · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

189,634
Students enrolled
234
Public schools
11,548
Classroom teachers (FTE)
16.4:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 3,961
  • Kindergarten 12,850
  • Grade 1 13,566
  • Grade 2 13,769
  • Grade 3 14,768
  • Grade 4 13,866
  • Grade 5 14,252
  • Grade 6 13,400
  • Grade 7 13,741
  • Grade 8 14,938
  • Grade 9 14,733
  • Grade 10 15,168
  • Grade 11 15,224
  • Grade 12 15,398

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 38%
  • Black or African American 28%
  • White 27%
  • Asian 3%
  • Two or more races 3%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

45% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 85,921 of 190,812 students in the 222 of its 230 schools that report
  • Free lunch 41%
  • Reduced-price lunch 4%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$15,224 spent per student on day-to-day operations Florida median: $12,447 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $9,697
  • Support services $4,829
  • Other (food service, etc.) $698

Where the money comes from

  • Local 69%
  • State 18%
  • Federal 13%

Total revenue $3.7 billiontotal spending $3.3 billion

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: LargeStudents: 63% suburb, 32% city, 3% town, 3% rural

Total staff (FTE)

23,060

District office

3300 FOREST HILL BLVD # C-316, West Palm Beach FL 33406

County

Palm Beach County

Official website

NCES District ID

1201500

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About PALM BEACH

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The School Board of Palm Beach County is committed to excellence in education and preparation of all our students with the knowledge, skills and ethics required for responsible citizenship and productive employment.
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