WESTGLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL

WESTGLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL is a sizable middle-grades school in CORAL SPRINGS, Florida, part of BROWARD. The school instructs 1,646 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 107% above the state mean of about 794.

BROWARD runs 325 schools in total, collectively educating 243,591 students. WESTGLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WESTGLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 25% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 38% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WESTGLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL has 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.9:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Broward County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, WESTGLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.8%, the actual is 81.5%, a residual of +5.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Broward County) records that the typical household earns roughly $77,633 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 WESTGLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WESTGLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WESTGLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 72.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WESTGLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL has ticked down 7%, going from 1,771 students in 2018 to 1,646 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 60% to 54% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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