Editing Pahokee, Florida (section)

===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
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|access-date=February 7, 2018
|archive-date=February 9, 2018
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* 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
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* 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/
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}}</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 />