West Broward Academy, Margate FL

Original Research by School Decision on West Broward Academy

West Broward Academy is a charter school in Margate, Florida, serving kindergarten through eighth grade within the Broward County school system. It draws from a predominantly Black and Hispanic student body, and a substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places it in a high-need demographic context that matters when reading its academic results.

On Florida's FAST assessments, the school's ELA results are its clearest relative strength. Proficiency rates in reading and language arts run in the low-to-mid fifties across the elementary grades and climb into the sixties at the middle school level, suggesting students are making progress in literacy as they move through the building. Math tells a more uneven story. Third grade math proficiency sits just above half, which is reasonable for that entry point, but the fourth- and fifth-grade numbers drop into the upper thirties and low forties. Sixth-grade math proficiency falls to the mid-teens, which is a genuine concern and one a parent would be right to ask the school about directly. Seventh and eighth grade math numbers recover somewhat but remain well below a majority of students reaching proficiency. Science proficiency in grades five and eight sits in the low-to-mid forties. These are not strong math outcomes, and a family with a student who needs rigorous math preparation heading into high school should ask specifically how the school addresses the transition into middle school mathematics.

No trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, stable, or declining over time. The comparison metric across Broward County's districts could not be calculated because the comparison set contained only a single district, so a county-relative position cannot be stated. No information on chronic absenteeism, discipline, or course access was present in the data.

The school's grade band, kindergarten through eighth, means there is no graduation rate and no AP or dual-enrollment programming to assess. A family choosing this school is choosing a single-building K-8 pathway that ends before high school, so the question of what comes next, which Broward County high school a student feeds into and how prepared they will be, is worth thinking through early.

Margate itself is in an active development phase. Multiple multifamily and townhome projects are publicly reported as underway or proposed, including a large apartment development directly on Coconut Creek Parkway near the school's address that broke ground in 2025 with an opening expected in the following couple of years. A separate townhome community is going up on a former golf course site. The city has also selected a developer for a long-planned City Center downtown project. All of this signals a neighborhood adding residents and density, which may affect school enrollment over time. On the housing side, home values in the school's zip code have edged downward year over year, and they sit below the Florida statewide benchmark, which makes ownership comparatively accessible in a Florida context. Rents have ticked slightly upward and carry a high rent-to-income burden relative to the national median income, so renters feel that pressure even as buyers may find more room than in pricier parts of the state.

No program information was available for West Broward Academy, so enrichment offerings, extracurriculars, and any specialized instructional model beyond the regular school designation cannot be described here. The district brief for Broward County did not surface parent-relevant changes before the search concluded, so district-level context was left out rather than guessed at.

The clearest takeaway from what the data shows: this is a school with readable literacy gains through the middle grades but a math pipeline that weakens notably at the sixth-grade transition. Families who are drawn to a smaller charter environment in Margate should ask the school directly about math supports and acceleration options for students heading into seventh and eighth grade.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 353%

School 53% · District 68% · ▼ 15 pts below district

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

Grade 438%

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

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 63% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 614%

School 14% · District 63% · ▼ 49 pts below district

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

Grade 721%

School 21% · District 59% · ▼ 38 pts below district

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 38 pts below county median

Grade 842%

School 42% · District 47% · ▼ 5 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 352%

School 52% · District 61% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 450%

School 50% · District 62% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 554%

School 54% · District 62% · ▼ 8 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 660%

School 60% · District 65% · ▼ 5 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 753%

School 53% · District 60% · ▼ 7 pts below district

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

Grade 865%

School 65% · District 59% · ▲ 6 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 542%

School 42% · District 57% · ▼ 15 pts below district

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

Grade 845%

School 45% · District 45%

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 3 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 3Lower-income56%Higher-income47%9 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income41%Higher-income65%25 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income58%Higher-income50%8 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income55%Higher-income69%14 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income49%Higher-income56%7 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income51%Higher-income82%31 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income51%Higher-income57%6 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income31%Higher-income50%19 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income39%Higher-income43%4 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income12%Higher-income16%4 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income25%Higher-income18%7 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income35%Higher-income52%17 pp gap