DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in SUNRISE, Florida, part of BROWARD, instructing 789 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 31% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 18% Hispanic, 7% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Broward County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).

Nearest neighbor: WESTPINE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 20% since 2018, when it stood at 982 (now 789). Class-load math has widened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 in 2025.

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