The top reported proficiency rate is 54% in Science. The lowest is 34% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Lloyd Estates Elementary School
Lloyd Estates Elementary sits in a residential pocket of Oakland Park, a mid-sized city in Broward County that is in the middle of a notable redevelopment moment. The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade, so graduation rates and middle or high school course access do not apply here. State testing results are available for grades three through five, and they tell a story worth reading carefully.
On the Florida statewide assessments, math proficiency in the third grade comes in at a level that clears a majority of tested students, which is a relative strength. By fourth and fifth grade, math proficiency drops to below half. Reading and language arts results are lower across the board: third and fourth grade ELA proficiency sits well under half of students, with the fourth grade figure being the weakest of the tested subjects reported. Fifth grade ELA fares somewhat better but still falls short of half. Fifth grade science is a relative bright spot, sitting just above the majority threshold. Taken together, the picture is one of uneven academic attainment, with math in the earlier elementary years showing the most traction and ELA being a persistent area of concern. Parents who want to understand what interventions or supports the school has in place for reading development would do well to ask directly, because the data alone does not explain what the school is doing to address those gaps.
The student body reflects the community Lloyd Estates sits within. Hispanic and Black students together make up the overwhelming majority of enrollment, and a substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this squarely in a high-need economic context. Data on English learner status and students with IEPs was not available in what was provided. The enrollment is a few hundred students spread across the grade band, which is a typical size for an elementary school in a district of Broward's scale.
Broward County operates a large, multischool district, and the neighbor comparison data did not produce a meaningful positioning of this school against others, given how the county's comparison set is structured in what was provided. Detailed district-level changes or strategic priorities were not captured in the research available, so that context is largely absent here.
Oakland Park itself is a city in transition. Publicly reported information describes a deliberate downtown redevelopment effort built around a Culinary Arts District along Dixie Highway, with two substantial mixed-use projects reshaping the city center. The Sky Building, which now houses City Hall, and the Horizon project on the former City Hall site are adding hundreds of residential units and retail to what had been a quieter downtown, with a portion of the new housing reserved as workforce-attainable units. The city reports meaningful growth in its tax base since the early 2020s. Residential neighborhoods near Lloyd Estates, including the Lloyd Estates area itself, are described in publicly available sources as quieter and family-oriented compared to parts of the city near Wilton Manors. Easterlin Park, a county-managed urban wilderness park with nature trails, camping, and disc golf, is nearby.
The housing market context matters for families weighing a move. Home values in the zip code are close to both the Florida state median and the national median, though they have dipped modestly year over year. Rents have been essentially flat in the same period. At current mortgage rates, the estimated monthly carrying cost on a typical home here is substantial, and the rent-to-income ratio sits in a range that signals real affordability pressure for households at or near median income. That is not a Lloyd Estates-specific condition; it describes much of South Florida's current market.
The school does not carry a magnet designation, and no specialized program offerings were reported in the data provided. Title I status was listed as not available. For a family in the Lloyd Estates attendance zone, this is the neighborhood public elementary option, operating in a community that is changing around it. The academic proficiency data, particularly in ELA, warrants a direct conversation with the school about how it supports students who are not yet reading at grade level.
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