DEERFIELD BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DEERFIELD BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier primary school in DEERFIELD BEACH, Florida, run under BROWARD. Current enrollment sits at 572 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

BROWARD comprises 325 schools with combined enrollment of 243,591 students; DEERFIELD BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, DEERFIELD BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 35% Black, 12% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting DEERFIELD BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DEERFIELD BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.4%, the actual is 41.4%, a residual of -12.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Broward County put 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 DEERFIELD BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is DEERFIELD BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DEERFIELD BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.5%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 612 students in 2018 compared to 572 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 25% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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