WATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a cozy elementary school in PEMBROKE PARK, Florida, operated by BROWARD. Current enrollment sits at 390 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

BROWARD comprises 325 schools with combined enrollment of 243,591 students; WATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, WATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 68% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 4% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at WATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Broward County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.6%; this one delivers 41.6%.

Around the school, census data for Broward County shows median household earnings sit near $77,633, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), WATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 31%, going from 563 students in 2018 to 390 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 19% to 27% across the same window.

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