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Enrollment
590
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000238
LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1500 NW 49TH AVE, LAUDERDALE LAKES, FL 33313 · (754) 322-6700 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL590 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 43% 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.
- B-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
17.4:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
392 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 | 60 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 118 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (118) is 40% larger than its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
18%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
46.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.5pp since 2023
Math
57.2%
FL avg 58.9% . -3.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 down about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.3% | 57.2% |
| 2023-24 | 44.7% | 61.0% |
% 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
47.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 590 | 66.4% | 50.7% |
| NORTH BROWARD ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE NORTH LAUDERDALE | 665 | 68.3% | 49.5% |
| OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 543 | 66.1% | 43.9% |
| CASTLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAUDERHILL | 548 | 65.7% | 41.4% |
| VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUNRISE | 654 | 63.0% | 47.6% |
| LINDA LENTIN K-8 CENTER NORTH MIAMI BEACH | 594 | 67.2% | 53.1% |
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 LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.7% | #1,309 of 2,136 | #126 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.2% | #1,229 of 2,149 ▼ 322 | #129 of 191 ▼ 37 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #1,482 of 2,149 ▼ 73 | #148 of 191 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 590 | #1,058 of 2,267 | #79 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #1,526 of 2,077 | #84 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.0% | #1,972 of 2,108 | #174 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.4% | #615 of 2,188 | #30 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.4% | #723 of 1,374 | #102 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
590
+28 (+5%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 874
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 590 | 34 | 17.4:1 | 66% (392) |
| 2023-24 | 566 | 34 | 16.6:1 | 73% (413) |
| 2022-23 | 547 | 33 | 16.6:1 | 87% (476) |
| 2020-21 | 562 | 37 | 15.2:1 | 85% (477) |
| 2017-18 | 689 | 51 | 13.5:1 | 95% (657) |
| 2015-16 | 736 | 52 | 14.2:1 | 94% (691) |
| 2010-11 | 562 | 39 | 14.4:1 | 96% (542) |
| 2000-01 | 1,029 | 52 | 19.8:1 | 75% (768) |
| 1990-91 | 874 | 41 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LAUDERDALE LAKES, Florida, is home to LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school. It teaches 590 students in pre-K through 5.
District-wide, BROWARD has 325 schools and 243,591 students.
The share of students at LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL who are Black is 90%. Smaller groups are 5% Hispanic. County-wide, 28% of Broward County residents are Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 18%.
On staff are 34 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.4:1. It is about the same as the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. About 66% of students at LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Broward County report 38%.
Among Florida public elementary schools, LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 43%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with Florida schools that have similar shares of low-income students, LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's results are 2.8 points above predicted: 50.7% against 47.9%.
In Broward County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $77,633, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. There are 338 public schools in the county, enrolling about 244,502, LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
LAUDERHILL 6-12, about 0.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 4th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 5%. The number of students per teacher increased from 15.2 to 17.4 over 4 years.
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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
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- WEST BROWARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,492 students
- J. P. TARAVELLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,436 students
Other schools in LAUDERDALE LAKES
- BOYD H. ANDERSON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,256 students
- CENTRAL CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 1,360 students
- PARK LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 903 students
- LAUDERDALE LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 726 students
- ORIOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 670 students
- CHAMPIONSHIP ACADEMY OF DISTINCTION HIGH SCHOOLCombined
Nearby schools
- LAUDERHILL 6-120.4 mi · 716
- ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 704
- CASTLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 548
- PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 550
- EAGLES NEST CHARTER ACADEMY1.1 mi · 320
- WINGATE OAKS CENTER1.4 mi · 90
Frequently asked questions
About LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 590 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.4:1.
How diverse is LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 2% White, 5% Hispanic, 90% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BROWARD.
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