 Initially, the college's goal was to provide additional training to local high school graduates who were unable to find jobs during the Great Depression.The college would move out of its original building in 1948 and later to its current main campus in Lake Worth in 1956.PBJC eventually expanded to five campuses – Belle Glade (1972), Boca Raton (1983), Loxahatchee Groves (2017), and Palm Beach Gardens (1980).