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INNOVATION CHARTER 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 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 INNOVATION CHARTER SCHOOL
INNOVATION CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in POMPANO BEACH, Florida, one of the schools within BROWARD. Current enrollment sits at 406 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so INNOVATION CHARTER SCHOOL sits 33% smaller than that benchmark.
INNOVATION CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 325 schools operated by BROWARD, a district that educates 243,591 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, INNOVATION CHARTER SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 23% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Broward County's rate of about 38%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, INNOVATION CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.5%; this one delivers 43.1%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Broward County put median household income runs about $77,633, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 INNOVATION CHARTER SCHOOL is one.
CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, INNOVATION CHARTER SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.
INNOVATION CHARTER SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, INNOVATION CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 8%: 375 students in 2018 compared to 406 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 56% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.
On allk12, the feed for INNOVATION CHARTER SCHOOL typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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