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What advice would you give to incoming students at CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
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Enrollment
682
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000158
CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1800 SW 4TH AVE, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33315 · (754) 323-5300 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL682 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of Florida public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
401 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 24 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 108 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 117 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 112 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 115 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (115).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
54.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.9pp since 2023
Math
62.6%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.1% | 62.6% |
| 2023-24 | 51.1% | 64.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
55.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (55.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 682 | 58.8% | 55.5% |
| CORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GIBSONTON | 696 | 57.6% | 38.5% |
| DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY APOPKA | 674 | 55.6% | 53.2% |
| ORANGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 679 | 58.3% | 38.4% |
| MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRANDON | 687 | 58.8% | 45.8% |
| FREEDOM SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOYNTON BEACH | 694 | 61.0% | 48.0% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #1,065 of 2,136 | #104 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.6% | #983 of 2,149 ▼ 200 | #104 of 191 ▼ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #1,107 of 2,149 ▲ 7 | #112 of 191 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 682 | #770 of 2,267 | #56 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #1,786 of 2,077 | #123 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.2% | #741 of 2,108 | #57 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.8% | #957 of 2,188 | #60 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.9% | #944 of 1,374 | #121 of 157 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
682
-26 (-4%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 675
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 16.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 682 | 36.5 | 18.7:1 | 59% (401) |
| 2023-24 | 653 | 35 | 18.7:1 | 67% (436) |
| 2022-23 | 692 | 40 | 17.3:1 | 83% (577) |
| 2020-21 | 708 | 43 | 16.5:1 | 76% (539) |
| 2017-18 | 757 | 52 | 14.6:1 | 89% (674) |
| 2015-16 | 812 | 49 | 16.6:1 | 88% (717) |
| 2010-11 | 724 | 45 | 16.1:1 | 77% (559) |
| 2000-01 | 945 | 52 | 18.2:1 | 71% (668) |
| 1990-91 | 675 | 34 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, part of Broward County, CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school. Federal data show 682 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
BROWARD enrolls 243,591 students, and its 325 schools include CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
At CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 52% of students are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 29% Black, 13% White, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. For comparison, the population of Broward County is roughly 33% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 62%.
CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 36.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 18.7:1. Elementary schools in Florida have an average ratio of 17.5:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 59%. On average, public schools in Broward County report 38%.
CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 53% of Florida public elementary schools.
CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 55.5% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 51.7%.
In the surrounding county, Broward County, the median household earns about $77,633 a year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Broward County has 338 public schools with about 244,502 students, including CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
SEAGULL SCHOOL is about 0.6 miles from CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 682, down from 708 in 2020-21. Students per teacher increased from 16.5 in 2020-21 to 18.7 in 2024-25.
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Broward County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,977,129
Census ACS
Median income
$77,633
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
338
244,502 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BROWARD
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- WESTERN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,510 students
- MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,089 students
- CORAL GLADES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,843 students
- WEST BROWARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,492 students
- J. P. TARAVELLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,436 students
Other schools in FORT LAUDERDALE
- FORT LAUDERDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,260 students
- DILLARD 6-12High · 1,998 students
- NEW RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,566 students
- LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMYCombined · 1,369 students
- STRANAHAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,286 students
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT TRADITIONElementary · 1,144 students
Nearby schools
- SEAGULL SCHOOL0.6 mi · 131
- WHIDDON RODGERS EDUCATION CENTER0.6 mi · 655
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE0.7 mi · 164
- HARBORDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 494
- STRANAHAN HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,286
- VIRGINIA SHUMAN YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 609
Frequently asked questions
About CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 682 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 18.7:1 (37 FTE teachers).
How diverse is CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 13% White, 52% Hispanic, 29% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of BROWARD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.