The top reported proficiency rate is 87% in Math. The lowest is 72% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Pembroke Lakes Elementary School
Pembroke Lakes Elementary sits on Taft Street in Pembroke Pines, a large suburban city in southwest Broward County that grew rapidly through the late twentieth century and has since settled into a predominantly residential, family-oriented community. The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within the Broward County district, drawing from a neighborhood where single-family subdivisions, planned communities, and lakefront developments make up the dominant residential fabric.
The student body reflects the diversity of Pembroke Pines itself. Hispanic students make up the largest share of enrollment, with white and Black students each representing meaningful portions of the school population, and smaller shares of Asian and multiracial students. Close to half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school in a genuinely mixed economic context rather than at either extreme. Data on English learner rates and students with IEPs were not available in the records reviewed.
On the state's FAST assessments, the math results across third, fourth, and fifth grade are a clear strength. Proficiency rates are high across all three tested grades, with both third and fifth grade reaching particularly strong levels and fourth grade close behind. That kind of consistency across a grade band is a meaningful signal of instructional coherence in math. Science proficiency at fifth grade is solid as well, coming in above what many Florida elementary schools report. ELA tells a somewhat different story. Third, fourth, and fifth grade reading and language arts proficiency rates are meaningfully lower than the math results, though not alarming in an absolute sense. Families whose children are working toward grade-level reading benchmarks may want to ask the school specifically about its literacy supports and intervention programs. No multi-year trend data was available for either subject, so it is not possible from these records to say whether results are improving, holding, or shifting.
The sixth-grade math result was suppressed in the state data, which typically reflects a group too small to report rather than a performance concern, and is a minor technical note rather than a meaningful data point.
The school itself is part of Broward County Public Schools, one of the largest public school systems in the country. The district brief turned up no confirmed parent-relevant policy or structural changes in recent years, so that context is thin and was left out rather than guessed at.
On housing, the zip code around the school sits in a market that is priced above both the Florida state median and the national median for home values. Rents in the area are also substantial, and the rent-to-income picture suggests meaningful cost pressure for renters in particular. Home values have edged slightly downward year over year at the time of this writing, though they remain elevated. For families weighing a move into the attendance zone, the housing costs are a real planning consideration.
Pembroke Pines itself is car-dependent in the way most of suburban South Florida is. Public transit exists through Broward County routes and the city's own community shuttles, but most daily errands require a vehicle. The city has invested in a mixed-use city center development along Pines Boulevard that brings dining, retail, and civic space into a more walkable format, and the park system is extensive, with C.B. Smith Park and the Chapel Trail Nature Preserve among the publicly reported anchors. Health care, retail, and government are the main employment sectors in the city, with Memorial Healthcare System a major local presence.
Because Pembroke Lakes Elementary covers only prekindergarten through fifth grade, there is no graduation rate to report. Graduation is simply not a metric that applies to a school at this grade band. For families thinking about the full K-12 pathway, the transition to middle and high school within Broward County would be the next piece to research.
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