PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an average-sized elementary school in POMPANO BEACH, Florida, operated by BROWARD, enrolls 549 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 62%; the rest is composed of 34% Hispanic, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 53.1%; this one comes in at 38.4%, -14.7 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Broward County shows median household income runs about $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

DEERFIELD BEACH HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARK RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 5%, going from 577 students in 2018 to 549 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 77% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 today.

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