WEST BROWARD ACADEMY

As a reasonably sized primary school in MARGATE, Florida, WEST BROWARD ACADEMY enrolls 770 students from grades K through 8, part of BROWARD. Enrollment runs roughly 27% larger than the state mean of about 604.

BROWARD comprises 325 schools with combined enrollment of 243,591 students; WEST BROWARD ACADEMY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WEST BROWARD ACADEMY shows that Black students make up the majority at 55%. The remainder breaks down as 36% Hispanic, 5% White, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, Roughly 7% of students at WEST BROWARD ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Broward County's rate of about 38%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEST BROWARD ACADEMY is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 77.7%; WEST BROWARD ACADEMY posts 48.0%, -29.6 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Broward County shows median household earnings sit near $77,633, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Broward County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), of which WEST BROWARD ACADEMY is one.

ASCEND CAREER ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WEST BROWARD ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, WEST BROWARD ACADEMY comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 66.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. As a public charter, WEST BROWARD ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. WEST BROWARD ACADEMY's enrollment has expanded 44% since 2018, when it stood at 535 (now 770). The Black share of enrollment climbed from 41% to 55% over that span.

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