SILVER LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL

SILVER LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL is an intermediate school of mid-sized scale in NORTH LAUDERDALE, Florida, operated by BROWARD, serveing 729 students in grades 6 through 8.

BROWARD runs 325 schools in total, collectively educating 243,591 students. SILVER LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, SILVER LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 78% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest is composed of 16% Hispanic, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Broward County's rate of about 38%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SILVER LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.4%; this one delivers 40.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Broward County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, 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), SILVER LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

NORTH LAUDERDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SILVER LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SILVER LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 48.0%.

SILVER LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SILVER LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL has ticked up 3%, going from 708 students in 2018 to 729 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 today.

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