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LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in LAUDERDALE LAKES, Florida, operated by BROWARD, hosting 590 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Within BROWARD, which oversees 325 schools and 243,591 students, LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that nearly all students (90%) are Black; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 66% of students at LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.9%; this one delivers 50.7%.
In the surrounding community, Broward County reports that median household income runs about $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 LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: LAUDERHILL 6-12, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 47.8%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Looking at the recent track record. LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 689 (now 590). Class-load math has loosened: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.
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