The reported proficiency rate for English language arts is 50%.
Original Research by School Decision on Hospital Homebound Services
Hospital Homebound Services is a special-purpose program operated under the Broward County public school system, based in Fort Lauderdale. It exists to serve students who cannot attend a traditional school setting due to medical or other qualifying conditions, and that purpose shapes everything about how to read its data.
The enrollment data is the most telling detail here. All students on record are enrolled at the pre-kindergarten level, with no students reflected in any grade from kindergarten through twelfth grade. That is a unusual pattern for a program listed as serving pre-K through grade 12, and it likely reflects how enrollment is administratively recorded rather than a true picture of who receives services. A parent whose child is school-age and medically homebound should contact the Broward district directly to understand how students at different grade levels are placed and counted.
State assessment results are almost entirely suppressed across math, ELA, and science at every tested grade. The single partial result that appears, in seventh-grade ELA, falls roughly at the midpoint of the proficiency scale, but given the very small number of students this program serves, that figure represents only a handful of students and cannot be read as a programmatic performance indicator. Suppression at this scale is standard when student counts are too small to report publicly without risking identification. It is not a signal of poor performance, and comparing these results to a conventional school's scores would not be meaningful.
A graduation rate was not available in the data, and comparisons to other districts in Broward County were not applicable given the nature of this setting.
What matters most for a parent navigating this program is understanding what it actually provides. Hospital Homebound Services is a bridge for students whose illness, injury, or medical condition keeps them out of school for an extended period. Publicly reported information from the Broward County school system confirms this type of program typically pairs students with itinerant teachers who deliver instruction at home or in a hospital. The goal is academic continuity, not a replacement for a traditional school pathway, and students generally return to their home school once medically cleared. Parents of students who need this support for an extended or indefinite period should ask the district specifically about how grade-level curriculum, special education services, and promotion decisions are handled within this program.
Fort Lauderdale itself is a large, economically diverse city anchored by finance, tourism, healthcare, and marine industries. Port Everglades and Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport are major infrastructure presences. The housing market in the zip code where the program is located reflects broader South Florida pricing, with home values that have edged slightly downward over the past year but remain well above the national midpoint, and rents that continue to climb. Rent consumes a substantial share of household income at current market rates, which is relevant context for any family managing a child's medical needs alongside housing costs.
Because the program's mission is so specific, conventional school-quality metrics do not apply in the way they would for a neighborhood school or a magnet. The question a parent should bring to Broward's school system is not how this program performs on state tests, but how it will keep their child's academic progress on track during a period when attending school in person is not possible.
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