DILLARD 6-12

DILLARD 6-12 is a high school of sizable scale in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, operated by BROWARD, works with 1,998 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so DILLARD 6-12 sits 93% larger than that benchmark.

BROWARD comprises 325 schools with combined enrollment of 243,591 students; DILLARD 6-12 is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DILLARD 6-12 shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%). Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, DILLARD 6-12 falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.6%; this one comes in at 35.8%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Broward County put median household income runs about $77,633, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which DILLARD 6-12 is one.

DILLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DILLARD 6-12. On composite proficiency, DILLARD 6-12 comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. DILLARD 6-12's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 2,212 (now 1,998). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 today.

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