FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE

FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE is an elementary campus of substantial scale in SUNRISE, Florida, run under BROWARD, instructing 1,370 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 127% above typical.

BROWARD runs 325 schools in total, collectively educating 243,591 students. FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE is one of those campuses.

On demographics, FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 29% Black, 14% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE logs 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 6% of students at FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 78.3%; this one delivers 71.4%.

Around the school, census data for Broward County shows median household earnings sit near $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE is one.

The closest other public school is ARC BROWARD INC., roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 58.6%.

FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE operates from a city-core location. FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE has stayed largely flat, going from 1,374 students in 2018 to 1,370 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 35% to 51%. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

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