Original Research by School Decision on Everglades High School
Everglades High School sits on a suburban campus in the western reaches of Miramar, a city in southern Broward County shaped by decades of planned residential growth. The school serves grades nine through twelve as a regular public high school within the Broward district, and its enrollment places it solidly in the mid-to-large range for a Florida high school.
The student body is racially diverse in a way that reflects Miramar itself. Black and Hispanic students together make up a large majority of enrollment, with a meaningful share of Asian students and smaller representations of white and multiracial students. Just over two-fifths of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a school that serves a broad economic cross-section rather than a uniformly affluent or uniformly low-income community. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs was not available in the records used here; parents with students in those populations may want to ask the school directly about service levels and staffing.
State assessment results and a four-year graduation rate were not available in the data provided. That is a genuine gap. Florida does report these figures for most regular high schools, so a parent researching academic outcomes should look directly at the Florida Department of Education's school accountability reports, which publish subject-level proficiency rates and graduation data by school. Similarly, chronic absenteeism rates were not available here. The comparison framework for Broward County districts also returned no applicable metrics for this school, so no positioning against county peers is possible from this data set.
Program information was not available in the data used here. Everglades is publicly reported as part of Broward County Public Schools, a large district that generally maintains AP course offerings, dual enrollment pathways, and career-technical programs across its high schools, but what specifically is available at this campus is something a parent should verify with the school or district course catalog. The district brief turned up no confirmed recent parent-relevant changes; that search reached its limit before anything lasting could be confirmed.
The neighborhood around the school is car-dependent suburban Miramar. The city's walkable core, the Miramar Town Center with its library, cultural center, City Hall, and transit hub, is elsewhere in the city. Getting to school, extracurriculars, or daily errands from most parts of western Miramar means driving. Major corridors including Miramar Parkway, I-75, and Florida's Turnpike structure daily movement for most families here.
Housing near the school reflects a market that has moved well above both the Florida state median and national median in recent years, though values have dipped modestly year over year. Rents in the area are also high relative to typical household incomes nationally, with rent consuming a substantial share of income for renters at current market rates. Mortgage costs at current rates are steep, and the price-to-income relationship here sits well above national norms. Families considering a move to this part of Miramar should weigh that housing cost picture carefully.
Miramar itself is a city still adding density, with large mixed-use projects advancing near major intersections. The city has grown substantially over recent decades and some residents have publicly raised concerns that denser development is changing the suburban character they chose. The Miramar Park of Commerce, publicly reported as South Florida's largest locally owned business park, anchors a significant employment base nearby, with tenants ranging from healthcare and logistics firms to consumer brands. That commercial presence shapes the economic backdrop for families living in this corridor.
For a student who thrives in a large, diverse urban-suburban high school within a major Florida district, Everglades reflects the Miramar community it draws from. The academic picture requires additional research directly from Florida's accountability data before a full assessment is possible.
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