DILLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, DILLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 556 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of BROWARD.

Within BROWARD, which oversees 325 schools and 243,591 students, DILLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, DILLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Broward County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, DILLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Broward County) logs that median household income runs about $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 DILLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: DILLARD 6-12, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DILLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 31%: 804 students in 2018 compared to 556 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.