Located in SUNRISE, FL. Serving grades PK through 05.
Horizon Elementary sits on North Pine Island Road in Sunrise, a suburban city in central-western Broward County that is part of the broader Miami metropolitan area. The surrounding community is car-oriented and commercially dense, anchored by Sawgrass Mills, the Amerant Bank Arena, and a cluster of major corporate employers including American Express, AT&T, and Amazon. Housing in the immediate zip code has seen a meaningful decline in value over the past year, and rents, while flat year over year, consume a notably high share of a typical household's income relative to national norms. Buying is similarly stretched: the estimated monthly mortgage sits well above what most national affordability benchmarks would consider comfortable. Families renting or weighing a purchase near this school are entering one of South Florida's more financially demanding housing markets.
The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade. Most of its students are Black or Hispanic, with a smaller share identifying as white, Asian, or two or more races. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which reflects a community with real economic pressure. IEP and English learner counts were not available in the data.
Florida's FAST assessments, reported for grades three through five, give the clearest picture of academic performance here. In third grade, the school's math proficiency is strong, and ELA proficiency is solid as well. The picture shifts in fourth and fifth grade. Math proficiency drops noticeably across those two grades, and by fifth grade fewer than half of students are scoring proficient in math. ELA follows a similar arc, with fourth- and fifth-grade proficiency rates settling in the mid-fifties. Science, assessed only at fifth grade through the Florida Statewide Science Assessment, lands just below the halfway mark. Third-grade results are genuinely encouraging; the middle and upper elementary grades are where a parent would want to ask the school directly about how it monitors student progress and what intervention or enrichment it puts in place as students move up.
Trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these results have been improving, holding steady, or declining. The comparison framework for this school was limited to a single district in Broward County, so a meaningful peer comparison could not be constructed from the data provided.
Broward County School District is the governing district. A search for recent district-level changes relevant to parents was conducted but did not return confirmed material before the research budget was exhausted, so district priorities and any current initiatives are left out here rather than guessed at.
Sunrise itself has grown steadily from its origins as a small planned community, and publicly reported figures show employment in the city rising modestly in recent years. The city has used business incentives and a homebuyer assistance program to support economic activity and neighborhood stability. For a family considering this school, the community context is one of a maturing, busy suburb with real economic energy and real affordability strain. The academic profile at Horizon rewards a closer look at how performance holds through the upper elementary grades, and a conversation with the school about its support structures for fourth and fifth graders would be worth having.
Percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards, by grade.
Officially reported figures, 2024-25.
All reported measures, by topic.