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What's the one class at PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
478
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000268
PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
8801 PASADENA BLVD, PEMBROKE PINES, FL 33024 · (754) 323-6900 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL478 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of Florida public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
16.5:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
248 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 | 38 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
63%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
49.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.1pp since 2023
Math
57.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.2% | 57.7% |
| 2023-24 | 45.1% | 52.3% |
% 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
51.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (51.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 478 | 51.9% | 51.9% |
| GREYNOLDS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH MIAMI BEACH | 532 | 52.3% | 45.0% |
| PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PEMBROKE PINES | 559 | 51.2% | 49.0% |
| PINES LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PEMBROKE PINES | 414 | 49.8% | 45.8% |
| SHERIDAN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 478 | 48.7% | 53.2% |
| WILLIAM S MAXEY ELEMENTARY WINTER GARDEN | 523 | 53.0% | 66.0% |
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 PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.9% | #1,236 of 2,136 | #118 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.7% | #1,205 of 2,149 ▲ 77 | #126 of 191 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.2% | #1,341 of 2,149 ▲ 51 | #133 of 191 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 478 | #1,505 of 2,267 | #117 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #1,257 of 2,077 | #43 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.8% | #706 of 2,108 | #52 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.9% | #1,222 of 2,188 | #85 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.0% | #939 of 1,374 | #120 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
478
-24 (-5%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 807
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 478 | 29 | 16.5:1 | 52% (248) |
| 2023-24 | 492 | 34.5 | 14.3:1 | 59% (291) |
| 2022-23 | 478 | 33 | 14.5:1 | 72% (346) |
| 2020-21 | 502 | 33 | 15.2:1 | 67% (334) |
| 2017-18 | 531 | 44 | 12.1:1 | 76% (406) |
| 2015-16 | 551 | 44 | 12.5:1 | 72% (396) |
| 2010-11 | 773 | 53 | 14.6:1 | 62% (478) |
| 2000-01 | 912 | 56 | 16.3:1 | 35% (323) |
| 1990-91 | 807 | 41 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school. Its address is in PEMBROKE PINES, Florida. Enrollment stands at 478 students, covering pre-K through 5. That is 21% below the average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in BROWARD, a system of 325 schools with 243,591 students.
At PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 53% of students are Hispanic. The remaining students are 28% Black, 11% White, 4% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Census figures show Broward County is about 33% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 63%.
On staff are 29 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.5:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. About 52% of students at PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Broward County is 38%.
Among Florida public elementary schools, PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 36%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 55.2% at PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 51.9%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Broward County show that the median household earns about $77,633 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Across Broward County, 338 public schools serve about 244,502 students.
CHARTER SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE AT DAVIE is about 0.8 miles from PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 7th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's location as Suburb: Large.
The school's enrollment decreased 5% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 15.2:1 to 16.5:1.
On allk12, people connected to PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 PEMBROKE PINES
- WEST BROWARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,492 students
- CHARLES W FLANAGAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,199 students
- CITY/PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,168 students
- PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 2,046 students
- SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGHHigh · 1,450 students
- FRANKLIN ACADEMY PEMBROKE PINESElementary · 1,367 students
Nearby schools
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE AT DAVIE0.8 mi · 223
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT COOPER CITY1.1 mi · 1,213
- CHAMPIONSHIP ACADEMY OF DISTINCTION AT DAVIE1.2 mi · 426
- PINES MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 626
- COOPER CITY HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 2,399
- INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BROWARD1.5 mi · 70
Frequently asked questions
About PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 478 students in grades PK-05.
Is PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 16.5:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 11% White, 53% Hispanic, 28% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of BROWARD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.