[3] Alexander W. Dreyfoos, at the suggestion of Dreyfoos Chairman Laurence Brandt Levine, donated the majority funding for the transformation of the campus, making the largest private contribution ever made to a public school in Florida, pledging $1,000,000 to support the Palm Beach County School of the Arts, which was subsequently renamed in his honor, the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts (DSOA).
[citation needed] According to The College Board's 2007 Report to the Nation, the studio art advanced placement students at The Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts had the highest percentage of students passing the AP exam of any large high school in the world.
[8] This is the third time the school's visual art department has received this distinction, having achieved it previously in 2005 and 2006.
[14] Dreyfoos Music Department was selected as one of the top ten music programs in the country by the NARAS (National Association of Arts and Science) Foundation and was declared a GRAMMY Gold Division School Grammy in the Schools.
The music department at Dreyfoos includes Band, Strings, Vocal, and Keyboard majors.
Most recently, they were invited to the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Conference to perform as Choir of Distinction.
[19] In 2019, the Dreyfoos Theatre Department became one of the first high schools in the world to perform the musical Amelié, which premiered on Broadway in 2017.
The majority of students commute to the school from around the county by District buses, by Tri-Rail to the train station across the street on Tamarind Avenue, and by car.
[25] This is the second time Dreyfoos has won the award, having earned it previously in 2004 to become the first school publication in Florida to do so.
[29] Seeds also received fourth place in "Best in Show" at the 2007 Fall Convention of the National Scholastic Press Association.
[30] The school's newscast, "DSOA Today", received fourth place in "Best in Show" at the 2005 Spring Convention of the National Scholastic Press Association.