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What's the biggest difference between DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
464
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000147
DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
300 SE 2ND AVE, DANIA BEACH, FL 33004 · (754) 323-5350 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL464 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
15.4:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
257 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 | 33 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 66 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (88).
Student demographics
69%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
50.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.6pp since 2023
Math
51.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -5.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.5% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.9% | 56.3% |
% 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
48.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (48.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 464 | 55.4% | 48.6% |
| LELY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 499 | 56.9% | 58.4% |
| LOVE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 380 | 52.9% | 35.4% |
| EUSTIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EUSTIS | 422 | 55.9% | 43.0% |
| ZELLWOOD ELEMENTARY ZELLWOOD | 564 | 51.6% | 52.2% |
| WILLIAM S MAXEY ELEMENTARY WINTER GARDEN | 523 | 53.0% | 66.0% |
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 DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.6% | #1,403 of 2,136 | #139 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,507 of 2,149 ▼ 400 | #159 of 191 ▼ 49 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #1,272 of 2,149 ▲ 224 | #126 of 191 ▲ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 464 | #1,559 of 2,267 | #122 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #886 of 2,077 | #21 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.2% | #268 of 2,108 | #17 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.4% | #1,069 of 2,188 | #71 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.3% | #1,028 of 1,374 | #126 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
464
+67 (+17%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 533
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 464 | 30.1 | 15.4:1 | 55% (257) |
| 2023-24 | 435 | 30 | 14.5:1 | 58% (251) |
| 2022-23 | 414 | 30 | 13.8:1 | 76% (314) |
| 2020-21 | 397 | 31 | 12.8:1 | 73% (290) |
| 2017-18 | 506 | 43 | 11.8:1 | 85% (429) |
| 2015-16 | 509 | 44 | 11.6:1 | 85% (434) |
| 2010-11 | 443 | 38 | 11.7:1 | 80% (355) |
| 2000-01 | 627 | 33 | 19.0:1 | 70% (441) |
| 1990-91 | 533 | 25 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public elementary school run by BROWARD in DANIA BEACH, Florida. It has an enrollment of 464 students in pre-K through 5. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average enrollment is about 604.
BROWARD is made up of 325 schools with 243,591 students in all.
The largest racial or ethnic group at DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic, with 39% of students. Next come 32% Black, 22% White, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 69%.
DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 30.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 15.4 students per teacher. The school's 15.4:1 compares with an average of 17.5:1 for elementary schools in Florida. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 55% of the student body. That rate is above the 38% average among public schools in Broward County.
Among Florida public elementary schools, DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 28%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is -4.8 points: 48.6% actual, 53.4% predicted.
For Broward County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $77,633 a year, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Broward County has 338 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to ATTUCKS MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3rd of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolled 397 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 464. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 12.8:1 to 15.4:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 DANIA BEACH
- OLSEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 602 students
- COLLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 252 students
Nearby schools
- ATTUCKS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 632
- MARY M BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 319
- OLSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 602
- COLLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 252
- SOUTH BROWARD HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 2,358
- AVANT GARDE ACADEMY FOUNDATION K81.5 mi · 90
Frequently asked questions
About DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 464 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.4:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 22% White, 39% Hispanic, 32% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is DANIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
DANIA ELEMENTARY 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.