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HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 54% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary-level community in HOLLYWOOD, Florida, operated by BROWARD. The school serves 408 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 32% leaner than that benchmark.
Within BROWARD, which oversees 325 schools and 243,591 students, HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 25% Black, 8% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Broward County's rate of about 38%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 53.7%; HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 69.9%, +16.3 points above that line.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Broward County put the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, 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 HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 46.9%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 22%, going from 520 students in 2018 to 408 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 54% to 63% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.
On the community side, members of the HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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