WILLIAM DANDY MIDDLE SCHOOL

WILLIAM DANDY MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a small intermediate school in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, run under BROWARD. Current enrollment sits at 620 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 22% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLIAM DANDY MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that nearly all students (91%) are Black. Other groups include 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, WILLIAM DANDY MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting WILLIAM DANDY MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Broward County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WILLIAM DANDY MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 44.4%, a residual of -3.3 points.

In the surrounding community, Broward County reports that median household income runs about $77,633, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Broward County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 244,502 students), WILLIAM DANDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ROCK ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLIAM DANDY MIDDLE SCHOOL at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 42.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLIAM DANDY MIDDLE SCHOOL has declined 35%, going from 947 students in 2018 to 620 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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