It is located about three miles east of Pahokee, on Muck City Road, in a former migrant worker facility, surrounded by sugar cane fields. Miracle Village, founded by a minister, offers a small residential community for registered sex offenders, who sometimes have great difficulty in finding housing, or are homeless (see Julia Tuttle Causeway sex offender colony), because of Florida's strict regulations limiting where sex offenders can live. JSTOR ( November 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. G.A.P Christian Academy, 183 S Lake Ave.The Shepherd's School, 1800 Bacom Point Road, a Christian school (grades K–12).(There is another, unrelated Everglades Preparatory Academy in Homestead, Florida.) Enrollment is 92% black, 6% Hispanic, 2% white. Everglades Preparatory Academy, 380 East Main St.
Enrollment is 72% black, 18% Hispanic, 9% white, 1% other. Glades Academy, 7368 State Road 15 (grades K–8).In 2014 five former Blue Devils were in the NFL, the second most from any high school in the country. "In Muck City, football is salvation, an escape from the likelihood of prison or early death." "Football is the chief subject taught at Pahokee High," a town historian wrote in 1963. Pahokee, together with nearby rival Belle Glade, with whom it competes each year in the "Muck Bowl", has "sent at least 60 players to the National Football League". Pahokee High School is best known for its football program that consistently ranks among the state's best. Enrollment is 68% black, 39% Hispanic, 2% white, 1% other. Pahokee Middle–High School, 900 Larrimore Rd.99% of the students are from low-income families. The racial makeup of the student body is 69% black, 29% Hispanic, 2% white. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary School, 37000 Main Street, Canal Point (grades K–5). Enrollment is 63% black, 35% Hispanic, 1% white, 1% other. Pahokee Elementary School is an IB ( International Baccalaureate) school. Pahokee Elementary School, 560 East Main Place (grades pre-K–5).Pahokee belongs to the School District of Palm Beach County.
Barfield Highway, is Glades Health Care Center, a 120-bed skilled nursing facility, with about 70 full-time employees. Glades Health Care Center Īdjacent to the former hospital, at 230 S.
The 63-bed general hospital, financially nonviable, closed in 1998 after years of contention, a change from public to private ownership, and three lawsuits. Barfield Highway was founded in 1936 as Everglades General Hospital the current building opened in 1950. Everglades Regional Medical Center Įverglades Regional Medical Center, at 200 S. On November 15, 1996, the old Pahokee High School building, built in 1928, was added to the U.S. Dissolution of the city has been proposed. A fifth of the population has migrated in the past 15 years. Taxable property values dropped from about $99 million in 2007 to $66 million in 2014. Īs a result, it is one of two Palm Beach County cities-the other is South Bay-on a list of 13 Florida municipalities in "a state of financial emergency." Records suggest it has been on the list continually since 1994. In 1963, with access to Cuban sugar restricted, a sugar plant was built, and agriculture shifted to the mechanized crop of sugar cane. In 1939, the Federal Writers' Project guide said of Pahokee: "From Christmas until April, Pahokee is a 24-hour town long trains of refrigerated cars roll out for northern markets day and night." "The streets are noisy and crowded bars, restaurants and gambling places are never closed." Pahokee was founded on the produce grown in the muck, the fertile bottom of the Everglades after part of it was drained in the early 20th century. Hurricane Wilma, in 2005, destroyed a newly built marina. The city was severely affected, as were the other communities to the south of the lake, by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. In the 1930s, it was known as the "Winter Vegetable Capital of the World". Local residents refer to Pahokee as "The Muck", which signifies the mineral-rich dark soil in which sugar cane, citrus fruits, and corn are grown by agribusinesses. The name "Pahokee" means "grassy waters" in the Creek language. Babb, as well as the four members of the City Commission were all African American. Census, 57% of the residents of Pahokee were African American and 33% were Hispanic or Latino. The population was 5,524 in the 2020 census. Pahokee is a city located on the shore of Lake Okeechobee in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. Royal Palms line the main thoroughfare through downtown Pahokee.
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