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CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 63% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a high-enrollment intermediate school in PEMBROKE PINES, Florida, one of the schools within BROWARD. The school works with 1,353 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 70% above typical.
CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 325 schools operated by BROWARD, a district that serves 243,591 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 22% Black, 10% White, 10% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school lists 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.9:1. The state averages about 19.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 62.8%; this one delivers 83.8%, a residual of +21.0 points.
In the area at large, 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. CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).
SUNSET LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 74.9%.
CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location. CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 1,319 students in 2018 compared to 1,353 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 20% to 10% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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