OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of small scale in HOLLYWOOD, Florida, part of BROWARD, works with 411 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 604.

Across the 325 schools in BROWARD (243,591 students total), OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 35% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 51.3%; OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 36.1%, -15.2 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Broward County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,633, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PARAGON ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 505 (now 411). Hispanic enrollment moved from 47% to 54% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.