Enrollment
222
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018004467
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL
502 N 28TH AVE, HOLLYWOOD, FL 33020 · (954) 925-0155 · Broward County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL222 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% of Florida public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
3%
7 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 29 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 33 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 33 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (29) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (33).
Student demographics
51%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
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
43.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.7pp since 2023
Math
36.2%
FL avg 58.9% . -4.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.1% | 36.2% |
| 2023-24 | 36.4% | 41.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
79.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-45.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 80% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (34.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 222 | 3.2% | 34.6% |
| CHAMPIONSHIP ACADEMY OF DISTINCTION AT HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD | 256 | 2.7% | 32.4% |
| BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF TAMPA TAMPA | 248 | 11.3% | 33.7% |
| GREENTREE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL SOUTHWEST RANCHES | 272 | 1.1% | 65.8% |
| BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF HOLLYWOOD HILLS HOLLYWOOD | 350 | 2.9% | 50.8% |
| BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF BROWARD K-8 HOLLYWOOD | 140 | 5.7% | 56.4% |
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 SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.6% | #1,995 of 2,136 | #186 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.2% | #2,015 of 2,149 ▼ 233 | #191 of 191 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.1% | #1,642 of 2,149 ▲ 146 | #168 of 191 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 222 | #2,083 of 2,267 | #179 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #1,446 of 2,077 | #75 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.4% | #1,306 of 2,108 | #123 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 3.2% | #2,172 of 2,188 | #183 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.2% | #299 of 1,374 | #53 of 157 |
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
222
-55 (-20%) vs 2020
+100% since 2010-11, when it was 111
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 222 | 13 | 17.1:1 | 3% (7) |
| 2023-24 | 209 | N/A | N/A | 54% (112) |
| 2022-23 | 229 | 14 | 16.4:1 | 58% (132) |
| 2020-21 | 277 | 18 | 15.4:1 | 66% (184) |
| 2017-18 | 301 | 21 | 14.3:1 | 65% (197) |
| 2015-16 | 303 | 17 | 17.8:1 | 71% (216) |
| 2010-11 | 111 | 6 | 18.5:1 | 77% (86) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL.
About SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL is a small elementary school in HOLLYWOOD, Florida, administered by BROWARD. The latest federal count shows 222 students in kindergarten through 5. Against the 604-student average for elementary schools in Florida, enrollment here is 63% lower.
The district for SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL is BROWARD, with 325 schools and 243,591 students.
At 61%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL combined. It is also 33% Black and 5% White. Broward County's residents are about 33% Hispanic, 28 points below the school's share. By the diversity index, SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL comes in at 51%.
Federal data list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers at SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 17.1:1. Elementary schools in Florida have a similar average ratio of 17.5:1. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 3%. It compares with 38% for public schools in Broward County.
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL is graded F by allk12, scoring above 2% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Test results at SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL are 45.0 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 34.6%, compared with a predicted 79.6%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in Florida.
County data help place the school in context: in Broward County, median household income is about $77,633, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL is among the 338 public schools in Broward County.
PARAGON ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY is the nearest neighboring public school, less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 34.6% is below the 63.4% average for nearby schools.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL is run as a public charter school.
The student count in 2024-25 was 222, 20% below the 277 of 2020-21. Students per teacher rose from 15.4 in 2020-21 to 17.1 in 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
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- 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 HOLLYWOOD
- SOUTH BROWARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,358 students
- MCARTHUR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,866 students
- HOLLYWOOD HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,143 students
- HOLLYWOOD ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCEElementary · 1,140 students
- AVANT GARDE ACADEMY OF BROWARDHigh · 1,122 students
Nearby schools
- PARAGON ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY0.0 mi · 123
- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 288
- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 234
- BEN GAMLA CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 360
- BEN GAMLA CHARTER SCHOOL NORTH CAMPUS0.4 mi · 288
- OAKRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 411
Frequently asked questions
About SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOLHow large is SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL?
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 222 students in grades KG-05.
Is SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL employs 13 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL?
At SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 5% White, 61% Hispanic, 33% Black, 0% Two or more.
What district is SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL in?
SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL is part of BROWARD.
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