PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in PEMBROKE PINES, Florida, run under BROWARD. The school works with 559 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 325 schools in BROWARD (243,591 students total), PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 38% Black, 6% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Broward County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.5%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Broward County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MCARTHUR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PEMBROKE PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 5%, going from 586 students in 2018 to 559 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 14% to 6% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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