The school has the Teacher's Academy Program and serves as the Law Magnet for the entire county.

It briefly operated as Palm Beach Lakes High until that school's new campus opened in 1989.

County school superintendent Joe Youngblood and Howell Watkins, the principal of Palm Beach High School who later became the college's first dean, were instrumental in opening the college.

The college's initial goal was to provide additional training to local high school graduates who were unable to find jobs during the Great Depression.

The site of the new Palm Beach Lakes High School, located at its current location at the intersection of Military Trail and 45th Street in West Palm Beach, was not completed until midway through the school year.

It was only by heroic efforts by PBHS Alumni that the buildings were saved and subsequently repurposed as Dreyfoos School of the Arts.

Graduates of Palm Beach High School have never considered themselves to be anything but proud PBHS Wildcats and trophies and other memorabilia are now stored in a small museum in downtown West Palm Beach.

[6] Teams from Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties participate in the tournament which draws thousands each year.