Palm Beach Gardens, FL schools
Palm Beach Gardens’s public schools score close to Florida’s averages: 53% of students are proficient in reading against 52% statewide, and 90% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.3%. Kids attend one of 5 elementary schools through grade 5, then Watson B. Duncan Middle School or Howell L. Watkins Middle School and Palm Beach Gardens High School or William T. Dwyer High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Palm Beach Gardens’s School Grade: B-
The public schools Palm Beach Gardens’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 52% of Florida’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Florida’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Florida only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Florida with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Palm Beach Gardens kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Close to the state in reading
90% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #212 of 631 FL towns →
The district serving Palm Beach Gardens
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Palm Beach Gardens
There’s no college in Palm Beach Gardens, but 12 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Florida Career College-West Palm Beach in West Palm Beach, 10.1 miles away.
2 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Palm Beach Gardens. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 20 schools in Palm Beach Gardens
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.