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NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL
NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL is a sprawling secondary school in OAKLAND PARK, Florida, run under BROWARD. The school teaches 1,717 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 66% bigger than the state mean of about 1,035.
Across the 325 schools in BROWARD (243,591 students total), NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 33% Black, 13% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.5%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Broward County) reports that median household earnings sit near $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL is one.
NORTH ANDREWS GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.0%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL has ticked down 3%, going from 1,774 students in 2018 to 1,717 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 40% to 50%. Class-load math has widened: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 24.9:1 in 2025.
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