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Enrollment
550
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000216
PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
651 NW 42ND AVE, PLANTATION, FL 33317 · (754) 322-8000 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL550 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
14.9:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
326 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 | 56 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
24%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
53.7%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.4pp since 2023
Math
59.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.7% | 59.9% |
| 2023-24 | 54.1% | 53.9% |
% 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
58.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (58.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 550 | 59.3% | 58.3% |
| SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 472 | 59.3% | 63.7% |
| VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUNRISE | 654 | 63.0% | 47.6% |
| FAIRWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIRAMAR | 452 | 60.2% | 46.8% |
| LAKE GEM ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 565 | 58.6% | 44.3% |
| SOMERSET NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL MIRAMAR | 467 | 63.4% | 62.5% |
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 PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #950 of 2,136 | #92 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.9% | #1,095 of 2,149 ▲ 100 | #115 of 191 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.7% | #1,123 of 2,149 ▼ 154 | #114 of 191 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 550 | #1,218 of 2,267 | #94 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #629 of 2,077 | #12 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.0% | #1,921 of 2,108 | #169 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.3% | #935 of 2,188 | #58 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.9% | #751 of 1,374 | #105 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
550
-38 (-6%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 802
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 550 | 37 | 14.9:1 | 59% (326) |
| 2023-24 | 572 | 38 | 15.1:1 | 67% (383) |
| 2022-23 | 577 | 40 | 14.4:1 | 82% (476) |
| 2020-21 | 588 | 38 | 15.5:1 | 81% (477) |
| 2017-18 | 639 | 42 | 15.2:1 | 94% (603) |
| 2015-16 | 527 | 36 | 14.6:1 | 92% (484) |
| 2010-11 | 609 | 41 | 14.8:1 | 91% (554) |
| 2000-01 | 845 | 40 | 21.1:1 | 80% (675) |
| 1990-91 | 802 | 33 | 24.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in PLANTATION, Florida, and is classified as an elementary school. The school reports 550 students in pre-K through 5.
The 325 schools in BROWARD enroll 243,591 students altogether, PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls a student body that is 87% Black. It is also 8% Hispanic and 3% White. For comparison, the population of Broward County is roughly 28% Black. PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 24%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1 at PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among elementary schools in Florida, the typical ratio is 17.5:1. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 59% of enrollment. Across public schools in Broward County, the average is 38%.
allk12 grades PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a B. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 51.5% at PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 58.3%.
Broward County has these Census figures: median household income is about $77,633, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 338 public schools in Broward County.
PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.6 miles away in a straight line. PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 44.8% proficiency; PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 58.3%.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 588 to 550.
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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
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- 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 PLANTATION
- SOUTH PLANTATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,303 students
- PLANTATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,696 students
- SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,014 students
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATIONElementary · 933 students
- CENTRAL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 800 students
- TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 791 students
Nearby schools
- PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 883
- BROWARD ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 220
- WINGATE OAKS CENTER1.0 mi · 90
- LAUDERHILL PAUL TURNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 590
- EAGLES NEST CHARTER ACADEMY1.1 mi · 320
- LARKDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 399
Frequently asked questions
About PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 550 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.9:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 3% White, 8% Hispanic, 87% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees PLANTATION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PLANTATION 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.