BROWARD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a minimally staffed primary school in LAUDERHILL, Florida, BROWARD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL caters to 220 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of BROWARD. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so BROWARD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 64% leaner than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, BROWARD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%); the rest reads as 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, BROWARD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Broward County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, BROWARD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.3%.

Across the wider county, Broward County reports that median household income runs about $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), BROWARD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BROWARD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BROWARD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROWARD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 48%, going from 422 students in 2018 to 220 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 96% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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