# PALM BEACH PREPARATORY CHARTER ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120150008009`
- **School name**: PALM BEACH PREPARATORY CHARTER ACADEMY
- **Location**: PALM SPRINGS, FL 33461
- **Address**: 3525 S CONGRESS AVE
- **District**: PALM BEACH (LEAID `1201500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 26.62451, -80.08978
- **Phone**: (561)623-6935

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 632
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 10
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 63.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.0%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 11.0% (cohort of 255)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 30

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 173.5% (505 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 91.3% (586 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 2.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 61.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 26.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 8.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 68.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.2% — 46 students
- **English Learners**: 4.4% — 28 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 62 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,824
- **Federal share**: $605
- **State + local share**: $9,219
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,532,108
- **Federal share**: 15.3%
- **State share**: 21.7%
- **Local share**: 63.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,014,132

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $68,792
- **Poverty rate**: 11.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,482
- **Foreign-born residents**: 55.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.8 miles (TRANS CIRCUITS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.00 miles (NORTH DIXIE HGHWAY PARCELS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALM SPRINGS, VILLAGE OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.39436 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 0.37% (this school: 0.78%)
- **PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.78%)
- **LAKE WORTH HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 0.78%)
- **G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS** — 1.6 mi away, 0.29% (this school: 0.78%)
- **JOHN I. LEONARD HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 0.49% (this school: 0.78%)

### graduation rate
- **LAKE WORTH HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 99% (this school: 11%)
- **G-STAR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS** — 1.6 mi away, 94% (this school: 11%)
- **JOHN I. LEONARD HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 96% (this school: 11%)
- **FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 93% (this school: 11%)
- **SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH** — 3.0 mi away, 93% (this school: 11%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/palm-beach-preparatory-charter-academy-palm-springs
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/palm-beach-preparatory-charter-academy-palm-springs/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/palm-beach-preparatory-charter-academy-palm-springs/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/palm-beach-preparatory-charter-academy-palm-springs/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/palm-beach-preparatory-charter-academy-palm-springs/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/palm-beach-preparatory-charter-academy-palm-springs/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/palm-beach-preparatory-charter-academy-palm-springs/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/palm-beach-preparatory-charter-academy-palm-springs/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/palm-beach-preparatory-charter-academy-palm-springs/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/palm-beach-preparatory-charter-academy-palm-springs/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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