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What's something OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
522
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000143
OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
936 NE 33RD ST, OAKLAND PARK, FL 33334 · (754) 322-7500 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL522 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of Florida public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
290 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 30 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
47.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +9.4pp since 2023
Math
54.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +17.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.6% | 54.5% |
| 2023-24 | 38.2% | 36.9% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
42.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (42.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 522 | 55.6% | 42.4% |
| DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS PALMETTO BAY | 513 | 55.2% | 64.6% |
| WEST HOLLYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 414 | 54.6% | 42.3% |
| BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY JACKSONVILLE | 463 | 54.6% | 28.4% |
| GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CUTLER BAY | 544 | 61.2% | 57.4% |
| GOLDEN GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 528 | 54.2% | 53.3% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.4% | #1,703 of 2,136 | #167 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #1,344 of 2,149 ▲ 578 | #145 of 191 ▲ 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.6% | #1,421 of 2,149 ▲ 303 | #141 of 191 ▲ 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 522 | #1,330 of 2,267 | #104 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #939 of 2,077 | #26 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.1% | #1,371 of 2,108 | #130 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.6% | #1,059 of 2,188 | #69 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.1% | #490 of 1,374 | #75 of 157 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
522
-27 (-5%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 590
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 13.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 522 | 33.5 | 15.6:1 | 56% (290) |
| 2023-24 | 548 | 37.5 | 14.6:1 | 65% (354) |
| 2022-23 | 576 | 34 | 16.9:1 | 83% (479) |
| 2020-21 | 549 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 77% (423) |
| 2017-18 | 653 | 46 | 14.2:1 | 92% (603) |
| 2015-16 | 640 | 42 | 15.2:1 | 91% (583) |
| 2010-11 | 577 | 38 | 15.2:1 | 88% (509) |
| 2000-01 | 713 | 34 | 21.0:1 | 67% (478) |
| 1990-91 | 590 | 29 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the public schools in OAKLAND PARK, Florida. It is a mid-sized elementary school. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 522 students enrolled.
OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in BROWARD, a system of 325 schools with 243,591 students.
More than half of the students at OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic (64%). Other reported shares: 30% Black and 4% White. That compares with about 33% Hispanic among all Broward County residents. The diversity index for OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 50%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its ratio of 15.6:1 is based on 33.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. In all, 56% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 38% for public schools in Broward County.
OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 14% of Florida public elementary schools.
Test results at OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are 10.9 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (42.4% actual, 53.3% predicted).
The school's county is Broward County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $77,633, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Broward County's 338 public schools enroll about 244,502 students and include OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Among nearby public schools, WILTON MANORS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest at about 0.8 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. By average proficiency, OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 8th among 8 schools close by.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 5% decline, from 549 to 522. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.6:1.
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Broward County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,977,129
Census ACS
Median income
$77,633
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
338
244,502 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BROWARD
- CYPRESS BAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,579 students
- WESTERN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,510 students
- MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,089 students
- CORAL GLADES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,843 students
- WEST BROWARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,492 students
- J. P. TARAVELLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,436 students
Other schools in OAKLAND PARK
- NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,717 students
- JAMES S. RICKARDS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 770 students
- NORTH ANDREWS GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 742 students
- SUNFIRE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 474 students
- LLOYD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 386 students
- SUNFIRE HIGH SCHOOL OF LEE COUNTYCombined
Nearby schools
- WILTON MANORS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 542
- SOMERSET VILLAGE ACADEMY0.9 mi · 254
- SOMERSET ACADEMY VILLAGE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 163
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS INC.1.1 mi · 76
- LLOYD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 386
- FORT LAUDERDALE HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 2,260
Frequently asked questions
About OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 522 students in grades PK-05.
Is OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.6:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 4% White, 64% Hispanic, 30% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of BROWARD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.