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GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in WESTON, Florida, GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a sizable elementary school, operated by BROWARD. It educates 1,156 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 91% bigger than that benchmark.
BROWARD comprises 325 schools with combined enrollment of 243,591 students; GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.
Demographically, GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 21% White, 8% Asian, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.5%, the actual is 84.7%, a residual of +8.2 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Broward County put median household earnings sit near $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 GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
IMAGINE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTON is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 79.1%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GATOR RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 10%, going from 1,289 students in 2018 to 1,156 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 27% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.
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