CASTLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a medium-sized elementary-level community in LAUDERHILL, Florida, CASTLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL works with 548 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under BROWARD.

Within BROWARD, which oversees 325 schools and 243,591 students, CASTLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, CASTLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, CASTLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting CASTLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Broward County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CASTLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 41.4%, a residual of -6.8 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), CASTLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LAUDERHILL 6-12, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CASTLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 642 students in 2018 compared to 548 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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