PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 10801 PEMBROKE RD, in PEMBROKE PINES, Florida, PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a substantial elementary campus that teaches 2,046 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within BROWARD. Enrollment runs roughly 239% larger than the state mean of about 604.

BROWARD runs 325 schools in total, collectively educating 243,591 students. PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 21% Black, 12% Asian, 10% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 38% of students at PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 62.1%; PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 81.3%, +19.2 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Broward County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NEW RENAISSANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 59.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area. PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 1,928 students in 2018 compared to 2,046 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.