The top reported proficiency rate is 56% in Math. The lowest is 43% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on North Lauderdale Elementary School
North Lauderdale Elementary sits on Kimberly Boulevard in the heart of a compact, built-out residential suburb in north-central Broward County. The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade, so it carries children through their entire elementary arc from the earliest years to the transition into middle school. A graduation rate does not apply here; that measure belongs to high schools. The school is a regular public school within the Broward County district, with no charter or magnet designation.
The school's enrollment is sizable for an elementary, spread fairly evenly across grade levels including a meaningful prekindergarten cohort. The student body is predominantly Black, with a substantial Hispanic share and smaller numbers of other groups. A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this school firmly in the higher-need range by that economic measure. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs was not available in the records we reviewed, so a parent interested in those specific support populations would want to ask the school directly.
On Florida's FAST assessments in the most recent school year, the academic picture is mixed. In math, fourth graders performed notably well, reaching proficiency at a rate well above half the class and standing out from the other grade levels tested. Third and fifth graders in math, and students across all three grades in ELA, landed below or near the halfway mark, meaning that in most tested groups fewer than half of students scored proficient. The fifth-grade science assessment tells a similar story. These are below-midpoint results by Florida standards, and a parent evaluating this school should ask the school what it is doing to move those numbers, particularly in reading across grades and in math for third and fifth grade. The strong fourth-grade math showing is worth noting, though the data does not explain what drives that variation from one grade to the next.
Trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say from this record whether results are improving, holding, or sliding.
North Lauderdale itself is a densely settled bedroom suburb that built out largely during a 1970s construction boom on what had been Broward County farmland, publicly reported sources note. The city packs a considerable number of parks into its small footprint, anchored by Hampton Pines Park with trails, a lake, paddleboat and kayak rentals, and a volleyball area, and the Jerry Resnick Aquatic Center with a junior-Olympic pool. There is no traditional downtown; civic life runs through parks, a city library housed under Parks and Recreation, and arterial roads like McNab and Rock Island. The community is notably diverse, with a strong Caribbean presence, and publicly reported sources describe it as a family-oriented working-to-middle-income suburb. Getting around requires a car for most errands, though a Broward County Transit shuttle connects residents to fixed bus routes.
Home values in the school's zip code have declined modestly year over year and now sit close to, though slightly below, both the Florida and national medians. Rents have also dipped slightly. That said, the rent-to-income ratio is high by national standards, and an estimated monthly mortgage payment on a typical area home would consume a substantial share of a median household income, which reflects the broader affordability pressure across South Florida rather than anything unique to this neighborhood. No large new housing development is underway within North Lauderdale itself; growth is incremental in a suburb that is essentially fully built.
For district-level changes, the search for recent Broward County Public Schools updates did not return confirmed lasting changes within the available research, so that dimension was left out rather than guessed.
For a family choosing this school, the community context is that of an affordable, diverse, family-focused suburb with good recreational infrastructure and a Caribbean cultural flavor. The school's academic results are a genuine soft spot that warrants direct conversation with school leadership about supports, instructional priorities, and how they plan to strengthen reading and math outcomes across grade levels.
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