TRADEWINDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

TRADEWINDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of well-populated scale in COCONUT CREEK, Florida, part of BROWARD, instructing 919 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 52% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

TRADEWINDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 325 schools operated by BROWARD, a district that instructs 243,591 students overall.

In terms of who attends, TRADEWINDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 25% White, 19% Black, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, TRADEWINDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.2%, the actual is 61.1%, a residual of -3.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Broward County indicate median household income runs about $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which TRADEWINDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LYONS CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TRADEWINDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TRADEWINDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 64.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. TRADEWINDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 30% since 2018, when it stood at 1,308 (now 919). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 31% to 25%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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