PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a modestly sized elementary-level community in PEMBROKE PINES, Florida, PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL works with 478 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by BROWARD. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 604.

PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 325 schools operated by BROWARD, a district that instructs 243,591 students overall.

On demographics, PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 28% Black, 11% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.2%, the actual is 51.9%, a residual of -3.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Broward County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: CHARTER SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE AT DAVIE, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 63.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 531 (now 478). The Black share of enrollment increased from 18% to 28% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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