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THE PEMBROKE PINES FLORIDA
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 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 63% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About THE PEMBROKE PINES FLORIDA
THE PEMBROKE PINES FLORIDA operates as a moderately sized primary school in PEMBROKE PINES, Florida, operated by FSU LAB SCH. Current enrollment sits at 710 students spanning grades K through 5.
FSU LAB SCH comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 2,561 students; THE PEMBROKE PINES FLORIDA is among them.
Looking at the student body, THE PEMBROKE PINES FLORIDA lists that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 27% Black, 21% White, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, THE PEMBROKE PINES FLORIDA ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 63.0%; THE PEMBROKE PINES FLORIDA posts 78.2%, +15.1 points above that line.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Broward County put the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), THE PEMBROKE PINES FLORIDA is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: PANTHER RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, THE PEMBROKE PINES FLORIDA comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. As a public charter, THE PEMBROKE PINES FLORIDA runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 679 students in 2018 compared to 710 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.
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