WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of compact scale in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, run under BROWARD, enrolling 408 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 32% below that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Broward County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.1%, the actual is 39.6%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Broward County put median household income runs about $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 338 public schools in Broward County (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students).

Nearest neighbor: NORTH FORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 54.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 47%: 771 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025.

On this page, members of the WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.