Eagles Nest Charter Academy, Lauderhill FL

Original Research by School Decision on Eagles Nest Charter Academy

Eagles Nest Charter Academy is a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade charter school on NW 15th Street in Lauderhill, a densely built-out city in Broward County. Despite being listed as serving grades K through 12, the enrollment data shows no students in grades nine through twelve, so the school functions in practice as a K-8 program. Parents considering it for high school should ask directly about those upper grades before making any plans.

The student body is small for a school spanning this many grade levels, and it is overwhelmingly Black, with a small share of Hispanic students and very few students of other backgrounds. Nearly every enrolled student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic character of the surrounding neighborhood. Data on students with IEPs and English learners was not available in what was provided.

The academic picture from the most recent Florida state assessments is a genuine concern and worth naming plainly. Across both reading and math on the FAST assessment, proficiency rates at most grade levels fall well below what Florida considers grade-level mastery. Math results are particularly low at the third-grade, fifth-grade, and sixth-grade levels, and the eighth-grade math result is the weakest of all tested grades. Reading results are somewhat stronger in the middle grades, with eighth-grade ELA showing the highest proficiency rate in the school, though it still falls short of majority proficiency. Science scores at both tested grades mirror the same pattern. The data available covers only the most recent school year, and no multi-year trend information was provided, so it is not possible to say whether results have been improving, declining, or holding steady. A parent would reasonably want to ask the school directly what academic interventions are in place and what progress looks like over time for individual students.

No information was available about program offerings, course access, extracurriculars, staffing ratios, attendance, or discipline. Those gaps are real, and a visit or direct conversation with school leadership would fill them in ways this data cannot.

The comparison framework available covers districts in Broward County, but because Eagles Nest is the only school in its comparison cohort, no meaningful positioning against peers could be produced.

The school sits in Lauderhill, a car-dependent city of roughly nine square miles that is fully developed and ethnically diverse, with a pronounced Caribbean presence. Housing in the immediate area leans toward condos and townhouses, with home values that have softened slightly over the past year and sit near the state average, though affordability remains a stretch by conventional mortgage-to-income measures. Rents have edged upward over the same period. The city runs free community shuttle routes and has transit connections at the Lauderhill Mall, which itself is undergoing its first major redevelopment in decades, with a large mixed-use apartment and retail project now in planning. The NW 38th Avenue corridor is being remade into an arts and entertainment district. Neither of these projects directly changes the school's context, but they signal that Lauderhill is in an active, if slow-moving, period of reinvestment.

The Broward County school district brief returned no parent-relevant changes, so nothing from the district level was added here rather than guessing.

Eagles Nest will fit families who want a small, community-rooted charter environment in Lauderhill and who are prepared to engage closely with the school on academic progress. The proficiency data, read honestly, means a family should go in with clear questions about how the school monitors and supports individual student growth, and what pathways exist once students reach the grades currently showing no enrollment.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 324%

School 24% · District 68% · ▼ 44 pts below district

▼ 39 pts below state median · ▼ 43 pts below county median

Grade 448%

School 48% · District 69% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 63% · ▼ 39 pts below district

▼ 31 pts below state median · ▼ 37 pts below county median

Grade 623%

School 23% · District 63% · ▼ 40 pts below district

▼ 39 pts below state median · ▼ 34 pts below county median

Grade 735%

School 35% · District 59% · ▼ 24 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 811%

School 11% · District 47% · ▼ 36 pts below district

▼ 40 pts below state median · ▼ 32 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 324%

School 24% · District 61% · ▼ 37 pts below district

▼ 32 pts below state median · ▼ 35 pts below county median

Grade 435%

School 35% · District 62% · ▼ 27 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 62% · ▼ 29 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 637%

School 37% · District 65% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 740%

School 40% · District 60% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 852%

School 52% · District 59% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Science

Grade 519%

School 19% · District 57% · ▼ 38 pts below district

▼ 34 pts below state median · ▼ 34 pts below county median

Grade 817%

School 17% · District 45% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 29 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below 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.