Greentree Preparatory Charter School, Southwest Ranches FL

Original Research by School Decision on Greentree Preparatory Charter School

Greentree Preparatory Charter School sits in Southwest Ranches, a deliberately rural enclave in western Broward County where large-lot equestrian properties and estate homes define the surroundings. The town has no sidewalks by design, no traditional downtown, and no public schools of its own; students here have historically attended schools in neighboring Davie, Weston, and Pembroke Pines. Greentree is a charter school operating within the Broward district, serving kindergarten through eighth grade, and its small total enrollment makes it one of the smaller K-8 settings in its grade band.

The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with Black and white students making up smaller shares and a modest Asian enrollment. Free and reduced-price lunch data was not reported, so economic context for the student population is not available from the data provided. Data on English learner rates and students with IEPs was also absent.

On Florida's FAST assessments, Greentree's results are uneven in a pattern worth understanding. Early elementary math is a genuine strength: third-grade math proficiency is well above what most Florida schools post, and fourth grade is close behind. Seventh and eighth grade math proficiency rates are also strong, with the seventh-grade figure especially high. ELA follows a similar arc, with third grade solid, a dip through grades four, five, and six where proficiency in reading and writing falls to mid-range or below, and then a sharp recovery by seventh and eighth grade. That middle stretch, roughly grades five and six, shows the weakest reading outcomes in the building. A parent enrolling a child who will spend those years here may want to ask the school directly how it addresses literacy during that transition from upper elementary to middle school.

Science results tell a similar story with more urgency. Fifth-grade science proficiency is low relative to what the school achieves in other subjects and grades. Eighth-grade science is closer to average. This is an area parents of science-minded students should explore further with the school.

The comparison data for Broward County's districts was not usable for placing Greentree against peers, because the county's charter landscape left only a single-district cohort, which is too small to draw meaningful comparisons. State-level context from the FAST results gives the clearest picture available.

Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether results are improving, declining, or holding steady. That is a reasonable question to raise with the school.

No graduation rate applies here because the school ends at eighth grade. No program-offerings data was provided, so the presence or absence of specific enrichment, arts, languages, or extracurriculars is not something the data supports describing.

The community context is one of the more distinctive in South Florida. Southwest Ranches is publicly committed to staying rural and low-density; the town's own motto is "The pavement stops here." Homes are on large lots, the area is heavily equestrian, and daily errands mean driving to Weston, Davie, or Pembroke Pines. Housing values near the school are substantially above both Florida and national medians, and the rent-to-income ratio in the area runs high, reflecting one of the more expensive residential markets in the state. New luxury estate development continues, with projects planned through the latter part of this decade.

For a family already in or moving to Southwest Ranches, Greentree offers a small-enrollment charter option that avoids the commute to schools in adjacent municipalities. The academic picture rewards looking grade by grade rather than treating the school as uniformly strong or uniformly weak: the upper middle school grades post results that are genuinely good, while the fifth and sixth grade band, particularly in science and ELA, warrants a closer conversation with school leadership.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 374%

School 74% · District 68% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 471%

School 71% · District 69% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 552%

School 52% · District 63% · ▼ 11 pts below district

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

Grade 654%

School 54% · District 63% · ▼ 9 pts below district

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

Grade 788%

School 88% · District 59% · ▲ 29 pts above district

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

Grade 880%

School 80% · District 47% · ▲ 33 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 37 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 370%

School 70% · District 61% · ▲ 9 pts above district

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

Grade 460%

School 60% · District 62% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 561%

School 61% · District 62% · ▼ 1 pts below district

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

Grade 654%

School 54% · District 65% · ▼ 11 pts below district

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

Grade 788%

School 88% · District 60% · ▲ 28 pts above district

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

Grade 879%

School 79% · District 59% · ▲ 20 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 57% · ▼ 30 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 26 pts below county median

Grade 853%

School 53% · District 45% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 11 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.