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Which teacher or staff member at RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
459
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000151
RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2600 SW 11TH CT, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33312 · (754) 323-7200 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL459 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% 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.
- CBeats 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
17.0:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
285 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 | 4 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (94).
Student demographics
57%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
43.4%
FL avg 56.7% . -4.8pp since 2023
Math
56.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.4% | 56.1% |
| 2023-24 | 48.1% | 47.5% |
% 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
47.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (47.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 459 | 62.1% | 47.2% |
| OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 411 | 59.6% | 36.1% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY THE DR. BERNARD KIMMEL CAMPUS LAKE WORTH | 515 | 66.4% | 41.3% |
| ROBERT C. MARKHAM ELEMENTARY POMPANO BEACH | 523 | 61.8% | 38.1% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY RIVERSIDE CORAL SPRINGS | 426 | 60.3% | 49.7% |
| DR. HENRY W. MACK/WEST LITTLE RIVER K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 383 | 64.0% | 47.2% |
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 RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.2% | #1,479 of 2,136 | #145 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.1% | #1,277 of 2,149 ▲ 233 | #136 of 191 ▲ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #1,631 of 2,149 ▼ 377 | #165 of 191 ▼ 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 459 | #1,578 of 2,267 | #125 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #1,427 of 2,077 | #69 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.1% | #1,033 of 2,108 | #90 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.1% | #825 of 2,188 | #43 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.0% | #574 of 1,374 | #82 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
459
-74 (-14%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 722
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 459 | 27 | 17.0:1 | 62% (285) |
| 2023-24 | 465 | 27 | 17.2:1 | 73% (340) |
| 2022-23 | 490 | 28 | 17.5:1 | 87% (424) |
| 2020-21 | 533 | 32 | 16.7:1 | 82% (435) |
| 2017-18 | 560 | 39 | 14.4:1 | 95% (530) |
| 2015-16 | 634 | 41 | 15.5:1 | 96% (606) |
| 2010-11 | 595 | 44 | 13.5:1 | 89% (527) |
| 2000-01 | 689 | 36 | 19.1:1 | 90% (618) |
| 1990-91 | 722 | 42 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The public elementary school RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida. There are 459 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average enrollment is about 604.
RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in a 325-school district, BROWARD, which enrolls 243,591 students.
Hispanic students are 51% of those enrolled at RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The next largest groups are 41% Black and 5% White. In Broward County overall, about 33% of residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 57% means there is a 57% chance two randomly chosen students at RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
There are 27 full-time-equivalent teachers at RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 17.0:1. It is about the same as the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. By family income, 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 38% average for public schools in Broward County.
RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 29% of Florida public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 50.0%. It scores 47.2%, 2.9 points below that figure.
Census data for Broward County show the median household earns about $77,633 a year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Counting RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Broward County has 338 public schools.
About 0.3 miles separate RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL from the closest public school, SUNED HIGH OF SOUTH BROWARD. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 5th out of 6 schools in its immediate area.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Mid-size, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment decreased by 14% across 4 years, from 533 in 2020-21 to 459 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 FORT LAUDERDALE
- FORT LAUDERDALE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,260 students
- DILLARD 6-12High · 1,998 students
- NEW RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,566 students
- LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMYCombined · 1,369 students
- STRANAHAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,286 students
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT TRADITIONElementary · 1,144 students
Nearby schools
- SUNED HIGH OF SOUTH BROWARD0.3 mi · 380
- WESTWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 451
- STRANAHAN HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,286
- UCP EARLY BEGINNINGS0.7 mi · 5
- BROWARD DETENTION CENTER1.1 mi · 78
- NEW LIFE CHARTER ACADEMY1.2 mi · 110
Frequently asked questions
About RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 459 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.0:1 students per teacher at RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 5% White, 51% Hispanic, 41% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BROWARD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.