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Alumni: what's one memory from GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
556
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018002043
GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5050 SW 116TH AVE, COOPER CITY, FL 33330 · (754) 323-5900 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL556 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
135 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 50%
Community
5
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 | 13 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 106 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (106).
Student demographics
62%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
77.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.5pp since 2023
Math
80.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.2% | 80.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.7% | 79.8% |
% 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
77.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (77.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 556 | 24.3% | 77.1% |
| AVALON ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 553 | 19.2% | 78.5% |
| NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 658 | 29.9% | 78.8% |
| SUNRISE ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 456 | 24.1% | 71.4% |
| ATHENIAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 437 | 24.7% | 48.6% |
| ACREAGE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LOXAHATCHEE | 569 | 30.1% | 68.4% |
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 GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.1% | #246 of 2,136 | #28 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #282 of 2,149 ▼ 47 | #38 of 191 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.2% | #229 of 2,149 ▲ 50 | #27 of 191 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 556 | #1,197 of 2,267 | #90 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #887 of 2,077 | #22 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.2% | #742 of 2,108 | #58 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.3% | #1,930 of 2,188 | #157 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.7% | #1,008 of 1,374 | #124 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
556
-65 (-10%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 1,075
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 556 | 36 | 15.4:1 | 24% (135) |
| 2023-24 | 592 | 40.5 | 14.6:1 | 27% (160) |
| 2022-23 | 592 | 41.5 | 14.3:1 | 34% (201) |
| 2020-21 | 621 | 42 | 14.8:1 | 32% (196) |
| 2017-18 | 609 | 48 | 12.7:1 | 39% (238) |
| 2015-16 | 595 | 44 | 13.5:1 | 34% (203) |
| 2010-11 | 547 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 22% (122) |
| 2000-01 | 847 | 43 | 19.7:1 | 7% (58) |
| 1990-91 | 1,075 | 52 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in COOPER CITY, Florida, under BROWARD. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 556 students on the rolls.
GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a school in BROWARD. The district has 325 schools and 243,591 students.
About 45% of students at GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic, the largest single group. After that, the student body is 41% White, 6% Black, 5% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Among all residents of Broward County, the Hispanic share is about 33%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 62%.
Based on 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a ratio of 15.4:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida, 17.5:1, is higher. Income data for the school show 24% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Broward County, the average is 38%.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 69.0% at GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 77.1%.
In the wider Broward County area, the median household earns about $77,633 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Across Broward County, 338 public schools serve about 244,502 students.
FRANKLIN ACADEMY COOPER CITY is about 1.4 miles from GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 77.1% average proficiency ranks 5th among 9 nearby schools.
GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 10%, from 621 to 556.
GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 COOPER CITY
- COOPER CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,399 students
- PIONEER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,453 students
- FRANKLIN ACADEMY COOPER CITYElementary · 1,336 students
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT COOPER CITYElementary · 1,213 students
- EMBASSY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,156 students
- COOPER CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 742 students
Other Griffin Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 3 states are named Griffin Elementary. GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 6.
- GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAKELAND, FL · 431 students
- Griffin Elementary SchoolKATY, TX · 782 students
- Griffin Elementary SchoolFORNEY, TX · 717 students
- Griffin Elementary SchoolTYLER, TX · 649 students
- Griffin Elementary SchoolGRAND HAVEN, MI · 308 students
Nearby schools
- FRANKLIN ACADEMY COOPER CITY1.4 mi · 1,336
- EMBASSY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 1,156
- COOPER CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 742
- COOPER CITY HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 2,399
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT COOPER CITY2.1 mi · 1,213
- PIONEER MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 1,453
Frequently asked questions
About GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 556 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.4:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 41% White, 45% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
GRIFFIN 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.