WESTCHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WESTCHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the high-enrollment primary schools in CORAL SPRINGS, Florida, run under BROWARD, with 979 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 62% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

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

Looking at the student body, WESTCHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 39% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 30% Black, 21% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WESTCHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.9%.

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 WESTCHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

CORAL GLADES HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WESTCHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WESTCHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 1,197 students in 2018 compared to 979 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 32% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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