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INDIAN TRACE 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 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About INDIAN TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
INDIAN TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-tier K-5 school in WESTON, Florida, operated by BROWARD, enrolls 667 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
INDIAN TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 325 schools operated by BROWARD, a district that educates 243,591 students overall.
On the student-mix side, INDIAN TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 55%. The remainder comes out to 30% White, 6% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.
On the resource side, INDIAN TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Broward County's rate of about 38%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, INDIAN TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 79.4%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Broward County) records that 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 INDIAN TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: TEQUESTA TRACE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around INDIAN TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, INDIAN TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 79.8%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Trend over the last 7 years. INDIAN TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 725 (now 667). Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 61% to 55%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.
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