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Enrollment
925
Middle
DISTRICT 883 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000261
CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
3551 NE 3RD AVE, POMPANO BEACH, FL 33064 · (754) 322-3100 · Broward County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL925 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Florida public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
470 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 289 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 312 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 324 | 35% |
Student demographics
56%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
41.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.2pp since 2023
Math
47.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.1% | 47.7% |
| 2023-24 | 33.9% | 34.7% |
% 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
44.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (44.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 925 | 50.8% | 44.1% |
| DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL DEERFIELD BEACH | 1,132 | 51.1% | 46.0% |
| POMPANO BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL POMPANO BEACH | 1,087 | 51.0% | 53.0% |
| MARGATE MIDDLE SCHOOL MARGATE | 927 | 49.6% | 45.7% |
| STEWART MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL TAMPA | 793 | 55.6% | 47.0% |
| EISENHOWER MIDDLE SCHOOL GIBSONTON | 1,174 | 54.5% | 34.0% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #416 of 560 | #42 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #396 of 560 ▲ 95 | #33 of 47 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.1% | #447 of 560 ▲ 4 | #42 of 47 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 925 | #197 of 584 | #25 of 48 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.5:1 | #445 of 547 | #27 of 41 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.5% | #313 of 553 | #27 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.8% | #287 of 565 | #16 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.9% | #51 of 379 | #5 of 34 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
925
-339 (-27%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 1,139
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
was 19.8:1
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 | 925 | 43 | 21.5:1 | 51% (470) |
| 2023-24 | 926 | 50 | 18.5:1 | 59% (544) |
| 2022-23 | 1,055 | 55 | 19.2:1 | 74% (776) |
| 2020-21 | 1,264 | 64 | 19.8:1 | 73% (924) |
| 2017-18 | 1,338 | 76 | 17.6:1 | 87% (1,167) |
| 2015-16 | 1,322 | 75 | 17.6:1 | 84% (1,105) |
| 2010-11 | 1,431 | 79 | 18.1:1 | 72% (1,032) |
| 2000-01 | 1,515 | 80 | 18.9:1 | 60% (914) |
| 1990-91 | 1,139 | 53 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-grades school located in POMPANO BEACH, Florida, in Broward County. The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 925 students in 2024-25.
District-wide, BROWARD has 325 schools and 243,591 students.
At CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL, 53% of students are Black. The school is also 40% Hispanic and 4% White. That is higher than the 28% Black share among all Broward County residents. The diversity index for CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is 56%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 43 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 21.5:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Florida is 19.6:1. The school reported 51% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The 38% average for public schools in Broward County is 13 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at C-, ahead of 19% of Florida public middle schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL, the prediction is 55.7% and the result is 44.1%.
In the surrounding county, Broward County, median household income comes to about $77,633, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. The county's public schools total 338, with about 244,502 students.
SOMERSET PINES ACADEMY, about 0.5 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 6th in a group of 7 nearby schools.
CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
From 1,264 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 925 by 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 19.8:1 to 21.5:1.
The CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
- CYPRESS BAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,579 students
- 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 POMPANO BEACH
- BLANCHE ELY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,877 students
- POMPANO BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,322 students
- POMPANO BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,087 students
- CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 733 students
- NORCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 678 students
- TEDDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 597 students
Other Crystal Lake Middle schools
One other US public school is named Crystal Lake Middle. CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOLLAKELAND, FL · 753 students
Nearby schools
- SOMERSET PINES ACADEMY0.5 mi · 447
- BRIGHT HORIZONS0.5 mi · 152
- TEDDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 597
- CRESTHAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 421
- PALMVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 523
- ANDREWS HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 376
Frequently asked questions
About CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 925 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 21.5:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 4% White, 40% Hispanic, 53% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BROWARD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.