PARK LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PARK LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school in LAUDERDALE LAKES, Florida, part of BROWARD. The school enrolls 903 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so PARK LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 50% above that benchmark.

BROWARD comprises 325 schools with combined enrollment of 243,591 students; PARK LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, PARK LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%). Beyond that, the school lists 14% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Broward County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PARK LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of +0.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Broward County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. PARK LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).

CENTRAL CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PARK LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARK LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 16%, going from 1,071 students in 2018 to 903 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.