TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a moderately sized elementary campus in TAMARAC, Florida, TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL caters to 553 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by BROWARD.

Across the 325 schools in BROWARD (243,591 students total), TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 26% Hispanic, 12% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.4%, the actual is 53.2%, a residual of -0.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Broward County shows 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. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT UNIVERSITY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 55.0%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 31%: 803 students in 2018 compared to 553 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 41% to 54%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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