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==Schools== ===Public=== Pahokee belongs to the [[School District of Palm Beach County]]. * Pahokee Elementary School, 560 East Main Place (grades pre-K–5). Enrollment: 375 (2015). Pahokee Elementary School is an IB ([[International Baccalaureate]]) school. Enrollment is 63% black, 35% Hispanic, 1% white, 1% other. 96% are from low-income families.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pahokee Elementary School |author=GreatSchools |url=https://www.greatschools.org/florida/pahokee/2259-Pahokee-Elementary-School/ |access-date=February 7, 2018 |archive-date=February 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180209182855/https://www.greatschools.org/florida/pahokee/2259-Pahokee-Elementary-School/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * K. E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary School, 37000 Main Street, Canal Point (grades K–5). Enrollment: 329. The racial makeup of the student body is 69% black, 29% Hispanic, 2% white. 99% of the students are from low-income families.<ref>{{cite web |title=K. E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary School |author=GreatSchools |url=https://www.greatschools.org/florida/canal-point/2300-K.-E.-Cunningham-Canal-Point-Elementary-School/ |access-date=February 7, 2018 |archive-date=February 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180209183011/https://www.greatschools.org/florida/canal-point/2300-K.-E.-Cunningham-Canal-Point-Elementary-School/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * Pahokee Middle–High School, 900 Larrimore Rd. (grades 6–12). Enrollment: 857 (2015). Enrollment is 68% black, 39% Hispanic, 2% white, 1% other. 93% are from low-income families.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pahokee Middle–High School |author=GreatSchools |url=https://www.greatschools.org/florida/pahokee/2298-Pahokee-Middle-Senior-High-School/ |access-date=February 7, 2018 |archive-date=February 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180209182629/https://www.greatschools.org/florida/pahokee/2298-Pahokee-Middle-Senior-High-School/ |url-status=live }}</ref> :Pahokee High School is best known for its football program that consistently ranks among the state's best. Pahokee, together with nearby rival [[Belle Glade, Florida|Belle Glade]], with whom it competes each year in the "Muck Bowl", has "sent at least 60 players to the [[National Football League]]". "In Muck City, football is salvation, an escape from the likelihood of prison or early death."<ref name = ovaska>{{cite news |last=Ovaska |first=Mark |url=https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/02/02/opinion/sunday/20120203_EXPOSURES.html |title=Muck City. Way Out. |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=February 2, 2012 |access-date=February 6, 2018 |archive-date=October 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029132529/http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/02/02/opinion/sunday/20120203_EXPOSURES.html |url-status=live }}</ref> "Football is the chief subject taught at Pahokee High," a town historian wrote in 1963.<ref name=football /> In 2014 five former Blue Devils were in the [[NFL]], the second most from any high school in the country.<ref name=football /> ===Public charter=== * Glades Academy, 7368 State Road 15 (grades K–8). Enrollment: 195 (2015). Enrollment is 72% black, 18% Hispanic, 9% white, 1% other. 97% are from low-income families.<ref>{{cite web |title=Glades Academy Elementary School Inc |author=GreatSchools |url=https://www.greatschools.org/florida/pahokee/5054-Glades-Academy-Elementary-School-Inc/ |access-date=February 7, 2018 |archive-date=February 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180209182459/https://www.greatschools.org/florida/pahokee/5054-Glades-Academy-Elementary-School-Inc/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ===Private=== * Everglades Preparatory Academy, 380 East Main St. (grades 9–12). Enrollment: 106 (2016). (There is another, unrelated Everglades Preparatory Academy in [[Homestead, Florida]].) Enrollment is 92% black, 6% Hispanic, 2% white. 90% are from low-income families.<ref>{{cite web |title=Everglades Preparatory Academy |author=GreatSchools |url=https://www.greatschools.org/florida/pahokee/5264-Everglades-Preparatory-Academy/ |access-date=February 7, 2017 |archive-date=May 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524015713/http://www.greatschools.org/florida/pahokee/5264-Everglades-Preparatory-Academy/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * The Shepherd's School, 1800 Bacom Point Road, a Christian school (grades K–12). Enrollment: 71 (2016). * G.A.P Christian Academy, 183 S Lake Ave. (K–12 Education)
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