BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a small elementary campus in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, operated by BROWARD. Current enrollment sits at 294 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 51% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 325 schools in BROWARD (243,591 students total), BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Black students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder looks like 30% Hispanic, 11% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 47.8%, a residual of -2.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Broward County) records that the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).

Nearest neighbor: SUNRISE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BENNETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 29%, going from 417 students in 2018 to 294 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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