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How has SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
574
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018002594
SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3700 N HIATUS RD, SUNRISE, FL 33351 · (754) 322-8450 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL574 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
242 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 | 29 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
67%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
58.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.4pp since 2023
Math
64.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.9% | 64.1% |
| 2023-24 | 58.5% | 63.9% |
% 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
60.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (60.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 574 | 42.2% | 60.2% |
| FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 624 | 41.2% | 63.6% |
| NOB HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUNRISE | 510 | 43.7% | 62.3% |
| METROWEST ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 549 | 40.4% | 38.8% |
| PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 713 | 41.5% | 60.3% |
| WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUNRISE | 589 | 38.9% | 62.3% |
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 SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.2% | #856 of 2,136 | #87 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.1% | #904 of 2,149 ▼ 118 | #96 of 191 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #884 of 2,149 ▼ 100 | #92 of 191 ▼ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 574 | #1,117 of 2,267 | #83 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #579 of 2,077 | #11 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.7% | #448 of 2,108 | #27 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.2% | #1,526 of 2,188 | #111 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.6% | #552 of 621 | #19 of 20 |
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
574
-33 (-5%) vs 2020
-57% since 1990-91, when it was 1,331
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 574 | 39 | 14.7:1 | 42% (242) |
| 2023-24 | 642 | 46 | 14.0:1 | 46% (296) |
| 2022-23 | 633 | 44 | 14.4:1 | 63% (401) |
| 2020-21 | 607 | 44 | 13.8:1 | 60% (366) |
| 2017-18 | 565 | 41 | 13.8:1 | 73% (414) |
| 2015-16 | 553 | 38 | 14.6:1 | 67% (368) |
| 2010-11 | 778 | 52 | 15.0:1 | 57% (444) |
| 2000-01 | 1,042 | 56 | 18.6:1 | 23% (243) |
| 1990-91 | 1,331 | 55 | 24.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
A mid-sized elementary school in SUNRISE, Florida, SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of BROWARD. There are 574 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5.
BROWARD runs 325 schools with a combined 243,591 students. SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
No group is above 50% at SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the largest is Hispanic, at 41%. The rest of enrollment is 37% Black, 15% White, 3% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Among all residents of Broward County, the Hispanic share is about 33%. The diversity index for SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 67%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.7:1. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average ratio is 17.5:1. The school has 42% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Test results at SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are within a point of what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (60.2% actual, 60.0% predicted).
Broward County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $77,633 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Broward County with 337 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE, about 0.7 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 4th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Under the NCES locale system, SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is City: Small.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 33 students from 2020-21 to 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 SUNRISE
- FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISEElementary · 1,370 students
- SAWGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 858 students
- DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 789 students
- WESTPINE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 730 students
- BAIR MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 672 students
- VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 654 students
Other Sandpiper Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Sandpiper Elementary. SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- Sandpiper ElementaryRedwood City, CA · 534 students
- Sandpiper Elementary SchoolSCOTTSDALE, AZ · 429 students
Nearby schools
- FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE0.7 mi · 1,370
- WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 589
- ARC BROWARD INC.1.2 mi · 69
- NOB HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 510
- WESTPINE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 730
- BANYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 427
Frequently asked questions
About SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 574 students in grades PK-05.
Is SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.7:1.
What is the student diversity at SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 15% White, 41% Hispanic, 37% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of BROWARD.
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