The top reported proficiency rate is 62% in Math. The lowest is 47% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Coconut Creek Elementary School
Coconut Creek Elementary sits in a planned suburban city in Broward County, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within the Broward district. The school draws from a genuinely diverse student body: Black, Hispanic, and white students each make up a meaningful share of enrollment, with smaller Asian and multiracial populations as well. Roughly half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing the school squarely in the middle range for economic need. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what we reviewed, so a parent wanting to understand support services for those groups would want to ask the school directly.
Florida's FAST assessment results, reported for the most recent school year, give a mixed academic picture. In math, fourth graders perform notably stronger than their third- and fifth-grade peers, where proficiency sits just above half of all students. ELA results follow a similar shape: fourth grade is the high point, though even there only about three in five students score proficient, and the third and fifth grade figures are closer to half. Fifth-grade science proficiency lands below half of students. These are not alarming numbers, but they are not strong ones either, and a parent should feel comfortable asking the school about how it monitors growth within individual grade levels and what reading and math intervention looks like in practice. Trend data across prior years was not available, so it is not possible from this data to say whether results are improving, flat, or declining.
Because the school serves only prekindergarten through fifth grade, there is no graduation rate and no AP or dual-enrollment data; those metrics simply do not apply here.
The neighborhood around the school shapes the daily experience of families in concrete ways. Coconut Creek is a planned community with landscaped streets, sidewalks shaded by oaks and palms, and an unusual amount of green infrastructure for a South Florida suburb. Butterfly World, Tradewinds Park, and Fern Forest Nature Center give families accessible outdoor options close to home. The city runs a free local transit system, including a trolley along the Lyons Road corridor and community bus routes that connect to Broward County Transit, which is a genuine practical asset for families without reliable car access.
The housing market around the school deserves careful attention. Home values in this zip code have come down noticeably year over year, placing local prices meaningfully below the Florida statewide median and the national median as well. Rents have also softened slightly. That sounds like an opening for buyers, but the affordability picture is still strained: the price-to-income ratio here sits well above what most financial planners consider healthy for a household buying at the median, and the estimated monthly carrying cost on a typical home is substantial. Renters face a similar squeeze, with rent consuming a large share of median household income by national standards. Families weighing a move to this attendance zone should budget carefully and factor in how South Florida mortgage rates and insurance costs interact with these figures.
The larger growth context matters too. Coconut Creek is in the early stages of building out a major new mixed-use downtown called Mainstreet at Coconut Creek, a multi-year project on former farmland near Lyons Road that is planned to add a large number of homes across several housing types alongside retail and civic uses. Publicly reported information indicates the first construction phases were anticipated to begin in late 2025. That kind of growth, if it proceeds as planned, will reshape the city's residential population and could eventually affect school enrollment and capacity, though nothing in the available data speaks to how the district is planning for that growth.
We looked for recent, parent-relevant changes within Broward district leadership or policy that might affect this school, but the research turned up little before the search was complete, so that piece is left out rather than guessed at. Families wanting to understand staffing stability, curriculum direction, or any ongoing district initiatives at this specific campus would be best served by a direct conversation with school administration.
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