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What's the one class at DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
544
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018004040
DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
16450 MIRAMAR PKWY, MIRAMAR, FL 33027 · (754) 323-8000 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL544 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of Florida public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
18.1:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
187 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 | 32 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 35% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
65%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
71.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.9pp since 2023
Math
81.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.2% | 81.3% |
| 2023-24 | 68.3% | 75.4% |
% 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
72.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (72.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 544 | 34.4% | 72.8% |
| LAKESIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PEMBROKE PINES | 500 | 37.0% | 74.9% |
| CORAL COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIRAMAR | 417 | 30.9% | 72.1% |
| SILVER PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PEMBROKE PINES | 450 | 33.1% | 70.6% |
| METROWEST ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 549 | 40.4% | 38.8% |
| CORAL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 463 | 31.7% | 61.7% |
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 DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.8% | #358 of 2,136 | #38 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.3% | #243 of 2,149 ▲ 129 | #33 of 191 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.2% | #396 of 2,149 ▲ 18 | #49 of 191 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 544 | #1,252 of 2,267 | #97 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #1,715 of 2,077 | #113 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.0% | #559 of 2,108 | #35 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.4% | #1,714 of 2,188 | #131 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.6% | #201 of 1,374 | #38 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
544
-71 (-12%) vs 2020
-36% since 2010-11, when it was 846
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 544 | 30 | 18.1:1 | 34% (187) |
| 2023-24 | 564 | 32 | 17.6:1 | 39% (219) |
| 2022-23 | 584 | 34 | 17.2:1 | 58% (338) |
| 2020-21 | 615 | 35 | 17.6:1 | 44% (273) |
| 2017-18 | 773 | 51 | 15.2:1 | 59% (457) |
| 2015-16 | 693 | 44 | 15.8:1 | 52% (363) |
| 2010-11 | 846 | 48 | 17.6:1 | 40% (340) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In MIRAMAR, Florida, part of Broward County, DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school. It teaches 544 students in pre-K through 5.
BROWARD, which runs DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, has 325 schools and 243,591 students.
The largest group at DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic students, at 47%. After that, the student body is 35% Black, 10% White, 6% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Broward County is about 33% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 65%.
Staffing at DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.1:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Florida is similar, at 17.5:1. DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 34% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 82% of Florida public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of Florida schools: 72.8% actual against 64.0% predicted.
American Community Survey estimates for Broward County show that the median household earns about $77,633 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Broward County has 338 public schools with about 244,502 students, including DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
GLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest public school to DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.5 miles away. Within five miles of DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is ahead of the 70.2% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 9.
NCES assigns DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had a net loss of 71 students, or 12%.
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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 MIRAMAR
- EVERGLADES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,973 students
- MIRAMAR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,950 students
- GLADES MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,030 students
- HENRY D PERRY EDUCATION CENTERCombined · 1,014 students
- NEW RENAISSANCE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 965 students
- SEA CASTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 878 students
Nearby schools
- GLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,030
- EVERGLADES HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,973
- SILVER LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 327
- SILVER SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 339
- CORAL COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 417
- THE PEMBROKE PINES FLORIDA1.7 mi · 710
Frequently asked questions
About DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 544 students in grades PK-05.
Is DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 18.1:1 (30 FTE teachers).
How diverse is DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 10% White, 47% Hispanic, 35% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is DOLPHIN BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
DOLPHIN BAY 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.