HARBORDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HARBORDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of tight-knit scale in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, run under BROWARD, instructing 494 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 325 schools in BROWARD (243,591 students total), HARBORDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, HARBORDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 30% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 38% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, HARBORDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.9:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 32% of students at HARBORDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HARBORDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.3%; this one delivers 67.7%.

Around the school, census data for Broward County shows median household earnings sit near $77,633, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which HARBORDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

CHARTER SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HARBORDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.1%.

HARBORDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. HARBORDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 7% since 2018, when it stood at 463 (now 494). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 57% to 50%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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