RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATION

Located at 6701 W SUNRISE BLVD, in PLANTATION, Florida, RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATION is a sprawling elementary-level community that hosts 933 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within BROWARD. That puts it 54% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATION is one of 325 schools operated by BROWARD, a district that works with 243,591 students overall.

Demographically, RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATION records that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATION shows 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 95% of students at RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATION qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATION sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.4%; this one delivers 44.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Broward County shows median household income runs about $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), RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATION is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PLANTATION MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATION comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATION operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATION's enrollment has ticked up 15% since 2018, when it stood at 808 (now 933). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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