The reported proficiency rate for Science is 75%.
Original Research by School Decision on Franklin Academy Pembroke Pines High School
Franklin Academy Pembroke Pines High School is a charter school serving grades nine through twelve, located on the southwest edge of Pembroke Pines in Broward County. Despite its directory listing spanning grades six through twelve, enrollment data shows students only in the high school grades, with no one enrolled in the middle grades at the time of the most recent count. Whether the middle grades were phased out, never fully activated, or simply not reported is not clear from the data, so a parent placing a younger student should ask the school directly about grade-band plans.
The school draws a student body that is majority Hispanic, with Black students making up roughly a fifth of enrollment, and smaller shares of white and Asian students. The share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch is notably low compared to the surrounding county context, which tells you something about the family economic profile of this school's draw area. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not reported, so parents of students who may need those services would want to ask directly about capacity and staffing.
On academics, the available performance data is limited to a single science assessment result from the eighth-grade cohort from the mid-2010s, a period when the school was still operating under a prior identity as Franklin Academy 3. That result showed a strong majority of tested students performing at proficiency or above on the FCAT 2.0 Science assessment. There are no more recent state assessment results in the dataset, no multi-year trend data, and no ELA or math proficiency figures. This is a meaningful gap. A parent trying to evaluate current academic outcomes should request Florida school grade and subject-level assessment results directly from the school or look up the Florida Department of Education's school accountability data. Graduation rate data was not available in the comparison set, which also applies here at the school level.
The comparison framework positions this school relative to districts in Broward County, but because the school sits within a single-district comparison universe, no meaningful peer ranking is possible for proficiency, graduation rate, or chronic absenteeism. Those comparisons are simply not computable from the available data.
Program information was not included in the data provided, so the breadth of AP offerings, dual enrollment, career and technical pathways, or extracurriculars is unknown here. Parents evaluating whether the school offers the academic depth or specialized programming their student needs should ask those questions at the school directly.
The school sits in a part of Pembroke Pines that is auto-oriented and suburban in character. Publicly reported sources describe Pembroke Pines as a large residential city within the Miami metro, built around planned subdivisions, gated communities, and a strong commercial corridor along Pines Boulevard. Getting anywhere from the school requires a car for most families. The city has invested in a mixed-use city center development that added rental housing and retail, and an accessory dwelling unit ordinance passed in 2024 is intended to add density over time. Home values in this zip code are substantially above both state and national medians, and the rent-to-income ratio reflects a housing market that puts real pressure on household budgets. Year-over-year home values have edged downward modestly while rents remain high. Families relocating to this part of Broward County should expect a high cost of entry.
The parent district, Broward County Public Schools, is one of the largest districts in the country. The district brief search did not surface confirmed recent changes relevant to parents, so that context was left out rather than guessed at.
What the data gives you here is a charter high school in an affluent suburban pocket of south Broward, with a demographically diverse student body, a low share of economically disadvantaged students, and thin publicly available academic outcome data beyond one dated science result. The housing market and school profile together suggest a school that draws from and serves a relatively advantaged segment of the Pembroke Pines community. How well it performs academically today, what it offers programmatically, and how it supports students who need additional services are questions the data does not answer, and a school visit or direct inquiry is the right next step.
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