The top reported proficiency rate is 57% in Math. The lowest is 44% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Lauderhill Paul Turner Elementary School
Lauderhill Paul Turner Elementary sits at the western end of Lauderdale Lakes, a small, densely built city in central Broward County with a decidedly working-class, Caribbean-influenced character. The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade and is part of the Broward County public school system.
The student body is heavily Black, with the vast majority of enrolled students identifying as such, and a substantial share qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic profile of the surrounding neighborhood. Data on English learner rates and students with IEPs were not available in the material we reviewed, so a parent wanting detail on special education supports or multilingual services would want to ask the school directly.
On the state's FAST assessments, the picture in math is mixed but not uniformly weak. Third and fourth graders reach proficiency at roughly similar rates, hovering just above half, while fifth graders perform noticeably better, with nearly two thirds reaching the proficient mark. That trajectory across grades is worth watching, though trend data across multiple years was not available, so it is hard to say whether this pattern is stable or shifting. In reading and language arts the picture is softer. Third grade ELA proficiency is the lowest result in the data, well below half of students, with fourth grade somewhat stronger and fifth grade falling back again. Fifth grade science results land below half as well. These are reported statewide FAST figures, and a parent should take them as one part of the picture rather than the whole story, particularly since the school's prekindergarten and early elementary population is large and those grades are not tested. A parent may want to ask the school what literacy supports and interventions are in place for students who are not yet reading at grade level.
The school has no comparison proficiency index available because there is only one district in the Broward County set used here, so no peer-group ranking is possible from this data.
On housing, the zip code around the school has seen home values decline noticeably year over year, placing the market well below both the Florida state median and the national median. Rents, by contrast, have edged upward, and the rent-to-income burden in the area is high relative to national norms. For families renting rather than owning, affordability is a real constraint. The area is effectively built out, so growth comes from infill and redevelopment rather than new subdivisions. The city's Community Redevelopment Agency has been channeling public investment into the main commercial corridors along State Road 7 and Oakland Park Boulevard, and a long-planned mixed-use Town Center project is still working toward realization. New townhomes and apartments have come online through CRA-linked development, but the surrounding neighborhood remains predominantly residential and suburban in character.
Getting around on foot is corridor-dependent. The city's own planning documents, publicly reported, describe the main arterials as needing traffic calming and a more pedestrian-friendly feel that does not yet exist. That said, the city runs a free community bus connecting the library, City Hall, medical facilities, and transit hubs along both an east-west and a north-south route, and most residents are within walking distance of a transit stop.
No program-offering data was available for the school, so we cannot speak to enrichment, arts, sports, or any specialty tracks within the building. The district brief returned no confirmed parent-relevant changes from the search conducted, so recent Broward district shifts specific to this school were not found and we left that section out rather than speculate.
For a family whose child is entering prekindergarten or kindergarten, the school offers a genuine early-start pathway with substantial pre-K enrollment. The academic results in the tested grades call for a conversation with school staff about how reading instruction is structured and what supports exist for students who need additional time to reach grade-level proficiency.
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