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Enrollment
482
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000267
JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
7800 NW 35TH CT, CORAL SPRINGS, FL 33065 · (754) 322-6500 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL482 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% of Florida public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
292 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 24 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
52%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
53.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.2pp since 2023
Math
55.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +10.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.4% | 55.3% |
| 2023-24 | 47.2% | 44.8% |
% 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
50.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (50.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 482 | 60.6% | 50.7% |
| FULFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH MIAMI BEACH | 498 | 60.4% | 51.4% |
| LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PEMBROKE PARK | 555 | 59.3% | 50.1% |
| POMPANO BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL POMPANO BEACH | 462 | 62.1% | 47.9% |
| SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIRAMAR | 426 | 58.2% | 49.8% |
| COLBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 578 | 60.0% | 39.0% |
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 JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.7% | #1,304 of 2,136 | #125 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.3% | #1,313 of 2,149 ▲ 314 | #140 of 191 ▲ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #1,139 of 2,149 ▲ 159 | #115 of 191 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 482 | #1,483 of 2,267 | #114 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #1,308 of 2,077 | #49 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.3% | #1,262 of 2,108 | #116 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.6% | #889 of 2,188 | #49 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.8% | #337 of 1,374 | #57 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
482
-33 (-6%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 848
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 482 | 29 | 16.6:1 | 61% (292) |
| 2023-24 | 511 | 31 | 16.5:1 | 62% (318) |
| 2022-23 | 502 | 31 | 16.2:1 | 76% (383) |
| 2020-21 | 515 | 36 | 14.3:1 | 80% (410) |
| 2017-18 | 641 | 44 | 14.6:1 | 88% (564) |
| 2015-16 | 715 | 46 | 15.5:1 | 88% (631) |
| 2010-11 | 889 | 52 | 17.1:1 | 82% (727) |
| 2000-01 | 910 | 46 | 19.8:1 | 61% (552) |
| 1990-91 | 848 | 38 | 22.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a small elementary school in CORAL SPRINGS, Florida. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 482 students. The average for elementary schools in Florida is about 604 students, so this school is 20% smaller than average.
JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is run by BROWARD, whose 325 schools enroll 243,591 students.
Roughly 61% of students at JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Black. Other groups make up 33% Hispanic and 4% White. County-wide, 28% of Broward County residents are Black. The school's diversity index is 52%, meaning two students picked at random have a 52% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its teaching staff equals 29 full-time positions, a ratio of 16.6:1. That is lower than the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 61%. Compared with the 38% average for public schools in Broward County, the school's rate is higher.
The allk12 Grade for JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is C+. Compared with Florida public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 39% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 50.7%, compared with a predicted 50.8%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
According to the American Community Survey, in Broward County, the median household income is $77,633, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. There are 338 public schools in Broward County, enrolling about 244,502 students in all.
CORAL SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.6 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 7th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment at JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL declined 6% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 515 to 482 students. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.3:1 in 2020-21, and 16.6:1 in 2024-25.
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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 CORAL SPRINGS
- CORAL GLADES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,843 students
- J. P. TARAVELLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,436 students
- CORAL SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,177 students
- CORAL SPRINGS CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 1,756 students
- WESTGLADES MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,646 students
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT CORAL SPRINGSElementary · 1,515 students
Nearby schools
- CORAL SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 2,177
- FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 624
- SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 306
- SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE1.1 mi · 426
- CORAL SPRINGS CHARTER SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,756
- FOREST GLEN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,037
Frequently asked questions
About JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 482 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 16.6:1 (29 FTE teachers).
How diverse is JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 4% White, 33% Hispanic, 61% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JAMES S. HUNT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by BROWARD in Broward County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.