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SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a small primary school in HOLLYWOOD, Florida, operated by BROWARD. Current enrollment sits at 378 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 37% smaller than that benchmark.
BROWARD comprises 325 schools with combined enrollment of 243,591 students; SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.
Demographically, SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 22% Black, 14% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 54% of students at SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.1%, the actual is 54.0%, a residual of -0.1 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Broward County) logs that median household earnings sit near $77,633, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: SHERIDAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.7%.
SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.
Over the past 7-year window. SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 512 (now 378). The White share of enrollment edged down from 22% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.
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