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Enrollment
981
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018003683
PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
10700 TRAILS END, PARKLAND, FL 33076 · (754) 322-7800 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL981 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of Florida public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
19.2:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
10%
100 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 | 25 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 129 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 147 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 141 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 181 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 183 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 175 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (129) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (175).
Student demographics
64%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
79.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
85.6%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.3% | 85.6% |
| 2023-24 | 78.3% | 85.9% |
% 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
79.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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 PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (79.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 981 | 10.2% | 79.3% |
| MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DELRAY BEACH | 806 | 12.9% | 93.6% |
| SANDERS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAND O LAKES | 842 | 10.7% | 75.3% |
| WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY WINTER GARDEN | 774 | 14.7% | 86.9% |
| TROUT CREEK ACADEMY ST. AUGUSTINE | 1,156 | 11.9% | 81.0% |
| STOWERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LITHIA | 867 | 10.3% | 79.9% |
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 PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.3% | #184 of 2,136 | #20 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.6% | #127 of 2,149 ▼ 27 | #19 of 191 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.3% | #170 of 2,149 ▼ 18 | #24 of 191 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 981 | #209 of 2,267 | #19 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #1,870 of 2,077 | #136 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.3% | #613 of 2,108 | #39 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.2% | #2,123 of 2,188 | #170 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.2% | #657 of 1,374 | #91 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
981
+23 (+2%) vs 2020
+12% since 2010-11, when it was 878
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 981 | 51 | 19.2:1 | 10% (100) |
| 2023-24 | 1,025 | 54.5 | 18.8:1 | 14% (147) |
| 2022-23 | 1,039 | 52.5 | 19.8:1 | 15% (157) |
| 2020-21 | 958 | 55 | 17.4:1 | 12% (116) |
| 2017-18 | 1,171 | 80 | 14.6:1 | 15% (179) |
| 2015-16 | 1,315 | 83 | 15.8:1 | 12% (158) |
| 2010-11 | 878 | 62 | 14.2:1 | 8% (72) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in PARKLAND, Florida. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 981 students. Elementary schools in Florida have about 604 students on average; enrollment here is 62% higher.
PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in a 325-school district, BROWARD, which enrolls 243,591 students.
More than half of the students at PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White (53%). Other reported shares: 24% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% Asian, and 7% multiracial. That compares with about 38% White among all Broward County residents. A diversity index of 64% means there is a 64% chance two randomly chosen students at PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
The school's 51 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.2:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has more students per teacher. At PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 10% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. It compares with 38% for public schools in Broward County.
Among Florida public elementary schools, PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 78%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3.2 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Florida schools.
For the population of Broward County, median household income comes to about $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Broward County counts 338 public schools with about 244,502 students.
HERON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits about 0.5 miles from PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 73.9%, lower than PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 79.3%.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school's size has been steady, with 958 students in 2020-21 and 981 in 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 17.4:1 in 2020-21, and 19.2:1 in 2024-25.
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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 PARKLAND
- MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,089 students
- HERON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,040 students
- RIVERGLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 993 students
Nearby schools
- HERON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,040
- WESTGLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,646
- MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 3,089
- SUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL1.5 mi · 388
- SOMERSET PARKLAND ACADEMY1.5 mi · 992
- COUNTRY HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 827
Frequently asked questions
About PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 981 students in grades PK-05.
Is PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.2:1.
What is the student diversity at PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 53% White, 24% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of BROWARD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.