COLBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

COLBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized elementary school in HOLLYWOOD, Florida, overseen by BROWARD. Current enrollment sits at 578 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, COLBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 57% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 36% Hispanic, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, COLBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Broward County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, COLBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of -12.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Broward County) shows that median household income runs about $77,633, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which COLBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

MCNICOL MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COLBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 59.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 703 students in 2018 compared to 578 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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