Renaissance Charter School at Plantation, Plantation FL

Original Research by School Decision on Renaissance Charter School at Plantation

Renaissance Charter School at Plantation sits on West Sunrise Boulevard in Plantation, Florida, serving kindergarten through eighth grade as a charter school within the Broward County district. Its enrollment is sizeable for a K-8 charter, filling classrooms across all nine grade levels. The student body is predominantly Black, with smaller Hispanic and white populations, and a large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, making this a high-poverty school by any measure. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in the records we reviewed.

On Florida's FAST assessments, the picture is mixed and warrants honest attention. In the elementary grades, math proficiency is weak, dropping particularly low in fifth grade before recovering in the middle school years. By seventh and eighth grade, math proficiency climbs noticeably, sitting above half of tested students by eighth grade. ELA follows a similar shape: third and fourth grade results are modest, fifth grade dips further, and then sixth through eighth grade show a meaningful jump, with around half or slightly more of students reaching proficiency in those grades. Science scores, tested in fifth and eighth grade, are below where most families would hope, with fifth grade results especially low and eighth grade somewhat stronger but still below the majority threshold. These are not figures to dismiss, and a parent who wants to probe them further would be well served by asking the school directly about instructional supports, cohort trajectories, and what the middle school recovery pattern reflects.

Trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, holding, or declining. The comparison framework for this school could only be placed relative to districts in Broward County, and because the county has only one district in the comparison set, no meaningful peer positioning was possible.

Program information is thin in the available data. The only listed extracurricular activity is Student Council. Whether the school offers arts, athletics, after-school programming, or enrichment courses is not captured here, and families should ask the school directly about what is available beyond the classroom.

The school sits in Plantation, a planned suburban city that was built from a 1930s master plan with intentional zoning separations and a design ordinance that barred adjacent homes from looking alike. The city is car-dependent in most of its residential areas, though a deliberate Midtown redevelopment is creating a more walkable core around the former Fashion Mall site, publicly reported as a large-scale mixed-use project with housing, office space, and street-front retail. Plantation is home to a dense cluster of corporate employers including Motorola Solutions, Magic Leap, and major healthcare institutions such as Plantation General Hospital and a University of Miami cancer center, which gives the surrounding economy some depth.

Housing near the school tells a complicated story. Home values in the relevant zip code are well below both the Florida state median and the national median, and values have declined year over year by a meaningful margin, more sharply than the state average. Rents have moved modestly upward over the same period. The rent-to-income ratio, using national median household income as the benchmark, sits at a level that would strain most budgets, and the estimated monthly cost of ownership is substantial. This is not an affordable entry market despite the lower-than-average home values, and families relocating with housing costs as a primary consideration should model the numbers carefully.

No district-level strategic priorities or recent policy changes for Broward were confirmed in the research for this profile; the search was exhausted before lasting changes could be identified, so that context was left out rather than inferred.

For a family weighing this school, the middle school grades show academic results that are meaningfully stronger than the elementary grades, which raises the question of what is driving that pattern and whether early elementary support is robust. The school serves a community with significant economic need, and its results should be read in that context rather than against wealthier peer schools. The program information available is sparse, so the full picture of what students experience day to day requires a direct conversation with the school.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 340%

School 40% · District 68% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

Grade 431%

School 31% · District 69% · ▼ 38 pts below district

▼ 30 pts below state median · ▼ 36 pts below county median

Grade 515%

School 15% · District 63% · ▼ 48 pts below district

▼ 40 pts below state median · ▼ 46 pts below county median

Grade 644%

School 44% · District 63% · ▼ 19 pts below district

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

Grade 748%

School 48% · District 59% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Grade 857%

School 57% · District 47% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 341%

School 41% · District 61% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 440%

School 40% · District 62% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 537%

School 37% · District 62% · ▼ 25 pts below district

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

Grade 656%

School 56% · District 65% · ▼ 9 pts below district

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

Grade 750%

School 50% · District 60% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 851%

School 51% · District 59% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Science

Grade 525%

School 25% · District 57% · ▼ 32 pts below district

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

Grade 838%

School 38% · District 45% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 4 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income39%Higher-income50%11 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income40%Higher-income42%2 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income41%Higher-income29%12 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income58%Higher-income50%8 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income51%Higher-income48%3 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income51%Higher-income52%1 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income33%Higher-income75%42 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income35%Higher-income16%20 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income14%Higher-income18%4 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income42%Higher-income50%8 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income48%Higher-income50%2 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income56%Higher-income60%4 pp gap