Lyons Creek Middle School, Coconut Creek FL

Original Research by School Decision on Lyons Creek Middle School

Lyons Creek Middle School sits in Coconut Creek, a planned suburban city in Broward County, serving sixth through eighth graders as a regular public school within the Broward district. The school draws a genuinely diverse student body: Hispanic students make up the largest share, followed by Black and white students, with smaller Asian and multiracial populations. Economically, a meaningful portion of families qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, though the majority do not. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what was provided.

On Florida's FAST assessments, the school's results tell a mixed but readable story. ELA proficiency is reasonably consistent across all three grade levels, with sixth and seventh graders performing somewhat similarly and eighth graders a bit lower, all in a range that places a solid majority of students at grade level. Math is more varied by grade: seventh grade math stands out as the clear strength, with the highest proficiency rate of any subject-grade combination reported. Sixth and eighth grade math land at a more modest level, and eighth grade math in particular sits below the other tested grades. Science is assessed at eighth grade only through the Florida Statewide Science Assessment, and results there are in line with the school's sixth-grade math and eighth-grade ELA, meaning roughly half to just under two-thirds of students are reaching proficiency depending on the subject. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these results reflect improvement, stability, or decline. Parents who want to understand how a specific child's needs match what the school offers may want to ask about supports in eighth-grade math in particular.

No program information was included in the data, so specific offerings in electives, athletics, clubs, or enrichment are a gap here. The school does not serve high school grades, so graduation rate and AP or dual-credit course access do not apply. Discipline and attendance data were also not provided.

The neighbor comparison could not produce a meaningful relative ranking because the comparison set within Broward County contains only a single district, so cross-district positioning was not applicable.

The surrounding community gives some texture to daily life for families here. Coconut Creek is a deliberately planned city, and its character shows in sidewalk-lined residential streets shaded by mature trees, a free local transit system (the Butterfly Express trolley and two community bus routes), and easy access to parks including Tradewinds Park and Fern Forest Nature Center. The city's commercial core anchors around the open-air Promenade shopping and dining center and the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. The major civic story unfolding right now is the Mainstreet at Coconut Creek development, a large-scale mixed-use project on former farmland along Lyons Road that is being built out as a new walkable downtown. Publicly reported accounts describe a phased buildout that includes a substantial number of new residential units across multiple housing types, which will likely add families to the school-age population over coming years. Families considering housing in Coconut Creek should be aware that the local housing market sits well above both state and national median home values, and rents consume a very high share of typical income, making affordability a real consideration.

District-level parent-relevant changes for Broward were not available from the research conducted, so that context is absent rather than assumed.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 659%

School 59% · District 63% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 770%

School 70% · District 59% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 854%

School 54% · District 47% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 666%

School 66% · District 65% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 767%

School 67% · District 60% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 862%

School 62% · District 59% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Science

Grade 859%

School 59% · District 45% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

This schoolBROWARD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income61%Higher-income68%7 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income64%Higher-income68%4 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income54%Higher-income65%11 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income49%Higher-income63%14 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income69%Higher-income71%3 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income51%Higher-income55%4 pp gap