PALM COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PALM COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate K-5 school in PEMBROKE PINES, Florida, operated by BROWARD. The school works with 385 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

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

On demographics, PALM COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 30% Hispanic, 15% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, PALM COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 54.6%, a residual of -4.9 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Broward County indicate median household income runs about $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), PALM COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PALM COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 63.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. PALM COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 41% since 2018, when it stood at 648 (now 385). White enrollment moved from 5% to 15% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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