Original Research by School Decision on Seagull Academy
Seagull Academy is a charter school classified as a special education school, serving grades six through twelve, located on Australian Avenue in Riviera Beach. Its enrollment is very small, consisting of only a handful of students spread across middle and high school grades, with the large majority concentrated in the senior year. That grade distribution is worth noting: nearly all enrolled students are in twelfth grade, with only one or two students in each of the earlier grades. A parent considering this school should ask directly about what that grade structure means for programming, peer cohort, and continuity of enrollment over multiple years.
Because Seagull Academy is classified as a special education school with an enrollment this small, several standard metrics simply do not apply or are not reported. State assessment proficiency data, graduation rate, chronic absenteeism, and IEP and English learner counts are all absent from the available data. That absence is not unusual for a school of this type and size: special education settings often serve students whose needs place them outside the standard testing framework, and with so few students, individual-level privacy protections can also limit what is publicly reported. A parent should ask the school directly about how student progress is measured, what credentials or diplomas students can earn, and what transition planning looks like for graduates.
Roughly half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a real economic diversity within a very small group. The student body is predominantly Black and Hispanic, with smaller shares of white students and students of two or more races. Program details were not available in the data we reviewed, so we left that out rather than guess.
The school sits within Palm Beach district, but we found little in the way of publicly reported parent-relevant district changes to describe here.
Riviera Beach itself is a city with distinct parts. The mainland is shaped by industrial corridors, warehouse zones, and the Port of Palm Beach, one of the county's larger employers. Singer Island, the barrier-island portion, runs a different character entirely: beach-oriented, quieter, heavily seasonal, and skewed toward older residents. The broader city is in a period of active redevelopment, centered on the long-delayed Marina Village waterfront project, which as of 2026 had selected a developer for a large mixed-use complex including a hotel, condominiums, and restaurants. That effort has faced years of delays and, publicly reported, an FBI subpoena related to communications about the project, so the pace of change remains uncertain.
Housing costs in the zip code sit above the Florida statewide midpoint and above the national average, with home values having edged slightly downward year over year. Rents remain high relative to income, with the rent-to-income burden in the area running well above what housing economists consider comfortable. Families considering a move to be near this school should factor that in carefully.
For a family whose child has been placed at or is exploring Seagull Academy, the key conversations to have with the school are about the specific disabilities or learning profiles it serves, how small enrollment is structured across the day, what post-secondary or transition supports are in place, and how the school fits within any existing IEP. The data available here gives a structural picture but not the program depth a family would need to make a real decision.
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