ROCK ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ROCK ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of modestly sized scale in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, operated by BROWARD, enrolling 468 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 604.

BROWARD runs 325 schools in total, collectively educating 243,591 students. ROCK ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, ROCK ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 10% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ROCK ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 69% of students at ROCK ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Broward County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, ROCK ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.6%, the actual is 42.3%, a residual of -4.2 points.

Across the wider county, Broward County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), ROCK ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HOSPITAL HOMEBOUND SERVICES, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROCK ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 44.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. ROCK ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 550 (now 468). Class-load math has widened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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