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How has EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
823
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018003302
EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2900 BONAVENTURE BLVD, WESTON, FL 33331 · (754) 323-5600 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL823 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
99 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 | 9 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 104 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 143 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 132 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 153 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 189 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 45% smaller than its 5th grade class (189).
Student demographics
58%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
81.3%
FL avg 56.7% . -1.7pp since 2023
Math
86.7%
FL avg 58.9% . -3.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.3% | 86.7% |
| 2023-24 | 83.0% | 90.4% |
% 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
82.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% 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 EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (82.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 823 | 12.0% | 82.9% |
| EAGLE CREEK ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 827 | 17.8% | 75.3% |
| MANATEE BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WESTON | 978 | 12.0% | 81.3% |
| WEST CREEK ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 565 | 23.5% | 71.5% |
| LAUREATE PARK ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 1,220 | 10.7% | 80.6% |
| EQUESTRIAN TRAILS ELEMENTARY WELLINGTON | 834 | 15.2% | 85.4% |
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 EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.9% | #87 of 2,136 | #8 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.7% | #105 of 2,149 ▼ 69 | #15 of 191 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.3% | #118 of 2,149 ▼ 61 | #15 of 191 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 823 | #415 of 2,267 | #34 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #1,376 of 2,077 | #61 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.3% | #972 of 2,108 | #81 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.0% | #2,099 of 2,188 | #167 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.9% | #274 of 1,374 | #50 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
823
-141 (-15%) vs 2020
-35% since 2000-01, when it was 1,270
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 823 | 49 | 16.8:1 | 12% (99) |
| 2023-24 | 884 | 50 | 17.7:1 | 17% (154) |
| 2022-23 | 924 | 56 | 16.5:1 | 23% (211) |
| 2020-21 | 964 | 60 | 16.1:1 | 16% (156) |
| 2017-18 | 1,126 | 71 | 15.9:1 | 16% (181) |
| 2015-16 | 1,106 | 67 | 16.5:1 | 19% (208) |
| 2010-11 | 1,036 | 67 | 15.5:1 | 12% (125) |
| 2000-01 | 1,270 | 56 | 22.7:1 | 4% (57) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in Florida, with an address in WESTON. Federal data show 823 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
BROWARD serves 243,591 students across 325 schools.
More than half of the students at EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic (59%). The rest of enrollment is 20% White, 15% Asian, 3% Black, and 2% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Broward County's population at about 33%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 58%.
The school had 49 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 16.8:1. It is about the same as the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 12%. That rate is below the 38% average among public schools in Broward County.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 7.7 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 82.9% actual, 75.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Florida.
Census data for Broward County show median household income comes to about $77,633, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. There are 338 public schools in the county, enrolling about 244,502, EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is MANATEE BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 1.1 miles away. Within five miles of EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 2nd of 9 on proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment decreased 15% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 WESTON
- CYPRESS BAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,579 students
- FALCON COVE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 2,096 students
- TEQUESTA TRACE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,308 students
- GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,156 students
- EAGLE POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,139 students
- IMAGINE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTONElementary · 1,093 students
Other Everglades Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 1 state are named Everglades Elementary. EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- EVERGLADES ELEMENTARYWEST PALM BEACH, FL · 818 students
- EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOKEECHOBEE, FL · 737 students
Nearby schools
- MANATEE BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 978
- COUNTRY ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 773
- CYPRESS BAY HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 4,579
- TEQUESTA TRACE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,308
- FALCON COVE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 2,096
- INDIAN TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 667
Frequently asked questions
About EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 823 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 16.8:1 (49 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 20% White, 59% Hispanic, 3% Black, 15% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is EVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
EVERGLADES 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.