Imagine Schools Plantation Campus, Plantation FL

Original Research by School Decision on Imagine Schools Plantation Campus

Imagine Schools Plantation Campus is a charter school on Peters Road in Plantation, serving kindergarten through eighth grade within the Broward County system. It draws from a mid-sized community that sits at the geographic center of Broward County, west of Fort Lauderdale, and its address places it in a city that was literally planned from its founding to be something other than a conventional urban grid. The master-planned roots of Plantation still show: wide lots, mature trees, separate zoning for residential and commercial uses, and a residential texture that ranges from newer mixed-use apartment developments in Midtown to traditional large-lot neighborhoods where horses occasionally still graze near new construction.

Academically, the picture here is genuinely strong, particularly in the earlier grades. Math proficiency in the third and fourth grades runs in the high eighties and low nineties on Florida's FAST assessment, and sixth-grade math sits in a similar range. ELA results across the middle grades, fifth through seventh, land solidly in the low-to-mid eighties. Science results at the tested fifth- and eighth-grade benchmarks are in the mid-to-upper seventies. These are meaningful numbers by any reasonable read of statewide context.

Where the data asks parents to look more closely is at eighth grade. Both math and ELA proficiency drop noticeably compared to the same school's earlier grades. The math figure for eighth grade slides into the upper sixties, and ELA falls into the low sixties. Whether this reflects the composition of that particular cohort, a pedagogical gap in the upper middle school years, or something else is not something the data here can resolve. A parent with a child approaching or already in seventh or eighth grade would do well to ask the school directly about what supports and course structures are in place at that level.

The school's student body is modestly sized for a kindergarten-through-eight campus. Demographically, white students make up a majority, Hispanic students are the next largest group, and Black students and students of two or more races make up smaller portions of the enrollment. A small share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, suggesting the school draws heavily from higher-income households. Data on English learner status and students with IEPs was not reported, so those support structures are worth asking about directly.

No Title I designation was reported, and no specific program offerings, staffing ratios, attendance figures, or discipline data were available in the data provided.

On the housing side, the zip code where the school sits has seen home values soften modestly year-over-year, though they remain near national and state norms. Rents have held roughly flat. For a family weighing whether to plant roots here, Plantation is in an active redevelopment phase: the former Fashion Mall site is being rebuilt as a large mixed-use destination, Midtown is adding residential density, and the Gateway District along State Road 7 has several projects in motion. The city is car-dependent by most measures, though civic infrastructure is real and accessible, including dozens of parks, two Olympic pools at Plantation Central Park, and two library branches.

No parent-relevant district changes or strategic priorities were confirmed through research, so that context was left out rather than approximated.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 389%

School 89% · District 68% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 491%

School 91% · District 69% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 574%

School 74% · District 63% · ▲ 11 pts above district

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

Grade 690%

School 90% · District 63% · ▲ 27 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Grade 782%

School 82% · District 59% · ▲ 23 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 868%

School 68% · District 47% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 381%

School 81% · District 61% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 475%

School 75% · District 62% · ▲ 13 pts above district

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

Grade 582%

School 82% · District 62% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 684%

School 84% · District 65% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 784%

School 84% · District 60% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

Grade 863%

School 63% · District 59% · ▲ 4 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 574%

School 74% · District 57% · ▲ 17 pts above district

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

Grade 877%

School 77% · District 45% · ▲ 32 pts above district

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 35 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.