ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 1951 NW 56TH AVE, in LAUDERHILL, Florida, ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary-level community that works with 704 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by BROWARD.

ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 325 schools operated by BROWARD, a district that caters to 243,591 students overall.

On the student-mix side, ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that nearly all students (92%) are Black. Other groups include 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 40.7%, a residual of -2.3 points.

In the area at large, Broward County reports that median household income runs about $77,633, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).

Nearest neighbor: LAUDERHILL 6-12, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 847 students in 2018 compared to 704 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.