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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
559
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000230
PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
6700 SW 9TH ST, PEMBROKE PINES, FL 33023 · (754) 323-7000 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL559 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 27% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
16.9:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
286 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 | 2 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 118 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (118).
Student demographics
61%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
50.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.9pp since 2023
Math
50.5%
FL avg 58.9% . -6.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.1% | 50.5% |
| 2023-24 | 48.3% | 56.7% |
% 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
49.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (49.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 559 | 51.2% | 49.0% |
| WILLIAM S MAXEY ELEMENTARY WINTER GARDEN | 523 | 53.0% | 66.0% |
| PASADENA LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PEMBROKE PINES | 478 | 51.9% | 51.9% |
| PINES LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PEMBROKE PINES | 414 | 49.8% | 45.8% |
| BOULEVARD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY HOLLYWOOD | 566 | 49.6% | 48.7% |
| ZELLWOOD ELEMENTARY ZELLWOOD | 564 | 51.6% | 52.2% |
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 PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,385 of 2,136 | #137 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #1,538 of 2,149 ▼ 455 | #164 of 191 ▼ 58 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.1% | #1,295 of 2,149 ▼ 50 | #129 of 191 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 559 | #1,183 of 2,267 | #88 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #1,411 of 2,077 | #67 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.2% | #812 of 2,108 | #65 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.2% | #1,254 of 2,188 | #89 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.6% | #1,181 of 1,374 | #136 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
559
-10 (-2%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 734
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 559 | 33 | 16.9:1 | 51% (286) |
| 2023-24 | 629 | 35 | 18.0:1 | 58% (367) |
| 2022-23 | 591 | 37 | 16.0:1 | 74% (437) |
| 2020-21 | 569 | 36 | 15.8:1 | 73% (416) |
| 2017-18 | 586 | 39 | 15.0:1 | 84% (492) |
| 2015-16 | 557 | 40 | 13.9:1 | 79% (440) |
| 2010-11 | 617 | 42 | 14.7:1 | 70% (430) |
| 2000-01 | 899 | 41 | 21.9:1 | 34% (310) |
| 1990-91 | 734 | 33 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in PEMBROKE PINES, Florida, and it is part of BROWARD. The school reports 559 students in pre-K through 5.
PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belongs to BROWARD, a district of 325 schools and 243,591 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic (49%). Other students are 38% Black, 6% White, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 33% Hispanic share among all Broward County residents. PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 61%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL total 33 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 16.9:1. Elementary schools in Florida average about 17.5:1, a similar figure. PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 51%. Among public schools in Broward County, the average eligibility rate is 38%.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate on state tests of 49.0% is 6.5 points below the 55.5% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
County data help place the school in context: in Broward County, median household income is about $77,633, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. The public schools of Broward County number 338 and enroll about 244,502.
The next-closest public school is MCARTHUR HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 49.0% against a local average of 55.1%.
Under the NCES locale system, PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment went from 569 in 2020-21 to 559 in 2024-25, a change of 10 students. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.8:1 in 2020-21 to 16.9:1 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 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
- MCARTHUR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,866
- WEST HOLLYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 414
- MIRAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 380
- SOMERSET ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY1.0 mi · 167
- HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 408
- APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,143
Frequently asked questions
About PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 559 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 16.9:1 students per teacher at PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 6% White, 49% Hispanic, 38% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by BROWARD in Broward County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.