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Enrollment
589
Elementary
DISTRICT 576 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000146
WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3230 N NOB HILL RD, SUNRISE, FL 33351 · (754) 322-8850 · Broward County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL589 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
229 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 50%
Community
5
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 | 18 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 110 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (110) is 28% larger than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
65%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
65.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.2pp since 2023
Math
70.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +3.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.4% | 70.5% |
| 2023-24 | 60.2% | 67.3% |
% 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
62.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (62.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 589 | 38.9% | 62.3% |
| FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 624 | 41.2% | 63.6% |
| METROWEST ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 549 | 40.4% | 38.8% |
| SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUNRISE | 574 | 42.2% | 60.2% |
| MAPLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 476 | 39.1% | 63.2% |
| NOB HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUNRISE | 510 | 43.7% | 62.3% |
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 WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.3% | #765 of 2,136 | #74 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.5% | #634 of 2,149 ▲ 8 | #69 of 191 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.4% | #611 of 2,149 ▲ 98 | #71 of 191 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 589 | #1,064 of 2,267 | #80 of 199 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #1,512 of 2,077 | #81 of 166 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.9% | #566 of 2,108 | #36 of 181 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.9% | #1,614 of 2,188 | #119 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.7% | #258 of 1,374 | #48 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
589
-130 (-18%) vs 2020
-43% since 2000-01, when it was 1,039
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 17.1:1
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 | 589 | 34 | 17.3:1 | 39% (229) |
| 2023-24 | 599 | 32 | 18.7:1 | 48% (285) |
| 2022-23 | 593 | 35 | 16.9:1 | 62% (365) |
| 2020-21 | 719 | 42 | 17.1:1 | 59% (427) |
| 2017-18 | 815 | 49 | 16.6:1 | 73% (597) |
| 2015-16 | 746 | 48 | 15.5:1 | 70% (521) |
| 2010-11 | 814 | 52 | 15.7:1 | 58% (470) |
| 2000-01 | 1,039 | 47 | 22.1:1 | 25% (262) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in Florida, located in SUNRISE. The school counts 589 students across pre-K through 5.
The 325 schools in BROWARD enroll 243,591 students altogether, WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
The most common group at WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Black students, at 43%. Other groups make up 39% Hispanic, 8% White, 5% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Broward County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The ratio of students to teachers is 17.3:1, with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That matches the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida fairly closely. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 39%. For comparison, public schools in Broward County average 38%.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is +0.6 points: 62.3% actual, 61.7% predicted.
Among Broward County residents, the median household income is $77,633, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Besides WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Broward County has 337 other public schools.
The closest other public school is SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.8 miles away. WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 57.4% on proficiency, and WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is above that at 62.3%.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 130 fewer students in 2024-25.
Community posts for WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 SUNRISE
- FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISEElementary · 1,370 students
- SAWGRASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 858 students
- DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 789 students
- WESTPINE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 730 students
- BAIR MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 672 students
- VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 654 students
Nearby schools
- SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 574
- FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE1.0 mi · 1,370
- NOB HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 510
- BAIR MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 672
- HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 505
- ARC BROWARD INC.1.5 mi · 69
Frequently asked questions
About WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 589 students in grades PK-05.
Is WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 17.3:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 8% White, 39% Hispanic, 43% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WELLEBY 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.