MARY M BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MARY M BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of close-knit scale in HOLLYWOOD, Florida, one of the schools within BROWARD, hosting 319 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 47% smaller than the state mean of about 604.

BROWARD runs 325 schools in total, collectively educating 243,591 students. MARY M BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, MARY M BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 22% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting MARY M BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Broward County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MARY M BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of +0.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Broward County put the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. MARY M BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).

ATTUCKS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARY M BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARY M BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. MARY M BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 39% since 2018, when it stood at 523 (now 319). The Black share of enrollment declined from 78% to 69% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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