QUIET WATERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

QUIET WATERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a sizable primary school in DEERFIELD BEACH, Florida, run under BROWARD. The school hosts 1,072 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 77% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

BROWARD comprises 325 schools with combined enrollment of 243,591 students; QUIET WATERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, QUIET WATERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 27% Black, 20% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, QUIET WATERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, QUIET WATERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.8%; this one delivers 50.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Broward County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,633, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), QUIET WATERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LYONS CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 1.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), QUIET WATERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 58.5%.

QUIET WATERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. QUIET WATERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 1,277 (now 1,072). White enrollment moved from 30% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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