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Enrollment
791
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000200
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1500 SW 66TH AVE, PLANTATION, FL 33317 · (754) 323-7750 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL791 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
252 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 12 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 102 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 122 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 153 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 155 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 141 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (141).
Student demographics
70%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
62.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.4pp since 2023
Math
65.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.3% | 65.3% |
| 2023-24 | 60.9% | 64.7% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
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 TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (61.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 791 | 31.9% | 61.8% |
| RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 679 | 33.3% | 75.0% |
| H. L. JOHNSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROYAL PALM BEACH | 864 | 31.9% | 68.2% |
| WATERGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WESLEY CHAPEL | 859 | 31.3% | 53.4% |
| HAGEN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOYNTON BEACH | 745 | 36.0% | 62.5% |
| SAWGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUNRISE | 858 | 30.1% | 71.4% |
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 TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.8% | #786 of 2,136 | #78 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #856 of 2,149 ▼ 103 | #91 of 191 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.3% | #732 of 2,149 ▼ 51 | #79 of 191 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 791 | #485 of 2,267 | #37 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #1,531 of 2,077 | #86 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.4% | #181 of 2,108 | #11 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.9% | #1,775 of 2,188 | #138 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.0% | #610 of 1,374 | #87 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
791
-40 (-5%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 766
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 791 | 45.5 | 17.4:1 | 32% (252) |
| 2023-24 | 784 | 46.5 | 16.9:1 | 39% (303) |
| 2022-23 | 839 | 52 | 16.1:1 | 53% (441) |
| 2020-21 | 831 | 57 | 14.6:1 | 45% (371) |
| 2017-18 | 953 | 65 | 14.7:1 | 51% (489) |
| 2015-16 | 918 | 65 | 14.1:1 | 48% (441) |
| 2010-11 | 923 | 63 | 14.7:1 | 39% (359) |
| 2000-01 | 959 | 48 | 20.0:1 | 26% (249) |
| 1990-91 | 766 | 33 | 23.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public mid-sized elementary school in PLANTATION, Florida. Total enrollment is 791 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Florida have about 604 students on average; enrollment here is 31% higher.
BROWARD is the local district for TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It runs 325 schools with 243,591 students.
The biggest share of students at TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 38%, is Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 32% White, 21% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 70%.
With 45.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 17.4:1. That is in line with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Roughly 32% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 65.2%. TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 61.8%.
The county, Broward County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $77,633, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. The county has 338 public schools and about 244,502 students.
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles from SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is behind the 63.9% nearby average, ranking 4th of 7.
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
The school's student count decreased 5% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The number of students per teacher increased from 14.6 to 17.4 over 4 years.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in BROWARD
- CYPRESS BAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,579 students
- WESTERN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,510 students
- 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 PLANTATION
- SOUTH PLANTATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,303 students
- PLANTATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,696 students
- SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,014 students
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATIONElementary · 933 students
- CENTRAL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 800 students
- MIRROR LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 639 students
Other Tropical Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 1 state are named Tropical Elementary. TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMERRITT ISLAND, FL · 569 students
- TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 367 students
Nearby schools
- SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,014
- PLANTATION PARK ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 492
- SOUTH PLANTATION HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 2,303
- MCFATTER TECHNICAL COLLEGE1.3 mi · 596
- IMAGINE SCHOOLS PLANTATION CAMPUS1.4 mi · 441
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 693
Frequently asked questions
About TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 791 students in grades PK-05.
Is TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 32% White, 38% Hispanic, 21% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by BROWARD in Broward County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.