BLANCHE ELY HIGH SCHOOL

Set in POMPANO BEACH, Florida, BLANCHE ELY HIGH SCHOOL is a large senior high, part of BROWARD. It works with 1,877 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 81% larger than typical.

BROWARD runs 325 schools in total, collectively educating 243,591 students. BLANCHE ELY HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, BLANCHE ELY HIGH SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Black, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 4% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, On paper, BLANCHE ELY HIGH SCHOOL has 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Broward County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BLANCHE ELY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.9%, the actual is 48.2%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Broward County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. BLANCHE ELY HIGH SCHOOL is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).

SANDERS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BLANCHE ELY HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.6%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. BLANCHE ELY HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 9% since 2018, when it stood at 2,074 (now 1,877). Black enrollment moved from 81% to 70% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 23.5:1 in 2025.

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