MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 693 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within BROWARD.

BROWARD comprises 325 schools with combined enrollment of 243,591 students; MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 14% Black, 7% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.3%; this one delivers 41.5%.

Around the school, census data for Broward County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

ANN STORCK CENTER INC. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 3%, going from 715 students in 2018 to 693 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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