OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in OAKLAND PARK, Florida, overseen by BROWARD, teacheing 522 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 30% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 56% of students at OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, OAKLAND PARK 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 42.4%.

In the broader community, census data for Broward County shows median household earnings sit near $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

WILTON MANORS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 20%, going from 653 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 45% to 64% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.