RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a cozy primary school in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, run under BROWARD, hosts 459 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

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

On demographics, RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 41% Black, 5% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the resource side, RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Broward County's rate of about 38%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.0%; this one delivers 47.2%.

In the surrounding community, 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), RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SUNED HIGH OF SOUTH BROWARD, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.6%.

RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIVERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 18%, going from 560 students in 2018 to 459 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 46% to 51% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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