ATLANTIC WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ATLANTIC WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in MARGATE, Florida, part of BROWARD, serveing 579 students in grades pre-K through 5.

BROWARD runs 325 schools in total, collectively educating 243,591 students. ATLANTIC WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ATLANTIC WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 60%. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, ATLANTIC WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 45.6%, a residual of -8.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Broward County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which ATLANTIC WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is MARGATE MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ATLANTIC WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 17%: 694 students in 2018 compared to 579 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 55% to 60% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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