ACADEMICS
- DSOA had 100% graduation rate (2018)
- Five Quest Bridge Scholarship recipients (2019)
- Seven National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists (2018)
- Recipient of Palm Beach Sons & Daughters Scholarship (2018)
- Candidates for the 2018 US Presidential Scholars Program
- The Class of 2018 graduated 100% of its students.
- Dreyfoos School of the Arts is number one out of 448 public schools in the state of Florida for graduation rates.
- National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist
- Ranked 59th by The Washington Post in the list of ‘America’s Most Challenging High Schools’ in the Nation (2017)
- Pathfinder Awards: Science 3rd Place, Music/Instrumental 1st Place, Art 2nd Place, Communications 2nd Place, History/Political Science 2nd Place, Forensics/Speech 1st Place.
- Recognized as one of the top 20 Debate schools in the country
- National Merit Scholarship Winner (2017)
- 151 Scholar Diploma Designations, 28 Merit Diploma Designations, 55 Gold Seals, and 5 Silver Seals for The Florida Seals of Bi-literacy
- Dreyfoos is ranked 80th in the nation and 11th in the state for best public high schools by U.S. News and World Report (2018)
- 2nd Place in Environmental Engineering at the Intel sponsored International Science and Engineering Fair (2016)
- 1st Place at the 2016 Commissioner's Academic Challenge (2016)
- 2016 Dwyer Award Winner – Science Teacher Marilyn Pedek-Howard
- 2016 Palm Beach County Teacher of the Year – Biology teacher Stephen Anand
- Sarah (Grandusky) Ray named Teacher of the Year for Palm Beach County.
- The American Geographical Society (AGS) has named Dreyfoos teacher, Sara Stout as a 2017 AGS Geography Teacher Fellow.
- SAT and ACT mean scores are consistently higher than those of the school district, state and nation
- Dr. Susan Atherley, principal of the Dreyfoos School of the Arts, was named Principal of the Year for region 4, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama by the Magnet Schools of America.
ARTS
- YoungArts Winners: 3 Finalists, 9 Honerable Mention, 5 Merit (2018)
- Two of our Communications students were part of the Since Parkland Project (2019)
- Student was the first person from Florida to be on the National Debate Team (2018)
- CSPA Gold Circle Awards (Individual): Seeds had 1st Place in Essays, 2nd Place in Essays, 1st Place in Single Photograph, 1st Place in Alternative Story Form, Certificate of Merit: Hand-drawn Art/ Illustration, 1st Place, News Page Design, Finalist for Design of the Year.
- Seeds has a finalist for Design of the Year (2019)
- Muse is a finalist for the Hybrid News Gold Crown (2019)
- Muse was a finalist for Pacemakers for NSPA (2018)
- Student won first place in Palm Beach Garden's Got Talent (2018)
- Fourth-best speaker out of 1,100 competitors overall at the National Championship Tournament (2018)
- 3rd, 10th in the Nation in Congress as well as Leadership Bowl Recipient (2018)
- Top 30 in the Nation in Informative Speaking (2018)
- Top 60 in the Nation in Congressional Debate (2018)
- Winner of 2018 Young Artist Vocal Competition
- Nominee for 2018 Jimmy Award
- Three graduates from the class of 2018 are going on to attend the Juilliard School
- Five Dreyfoos strings students from the class of 2018 were selected for the National Youth Orchestra
- 2nd place in Men's Contemporary and 3rd place for Men's Contemporary and Classical at the Youth America Grand Prix (2018)
- Musician for the 2018 Grammy Jazz Band
- 1st place in the Alhambra Concerto Competition
- Performed on NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley
- 1st place in Congressional Debate, 2 finalists, 2 semifinalists, 3 quarterfinalists, and 8th place overall in team sweepstakes at the Yale Invitational Tournament
- 1st place Pathfinder winner in Art (2017)
- Young Arts Presidential Scholar in the Arts (2017)
- 1st and 3rd place winners, English Speaking Union Essay Contest (2017)
- 6 Superior Ratings at the Florida Thespian State Festival (2017)
- One Dance Senior was accepted into the Juilliard School (2017)
- 2 Gold, 7 Silver, and 1 American Vision winners in the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (2016)
- Best Cinematography at the All American High School Film Festival (2016)
- The Dreyfoos School of the Arts newsmagazine, The Muse, won a Hybrid Gold Crown Award for news publications by the Columbia Scholastic Press (2016)
- State Champion in Student Congress at Florida Forensic League Varsity State Championship (2016)
- 1st place winner at Swing Central Jazz Competition (2016)
