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BROWARD

Fort Lauderdale, Florida · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

243,553
Students enrolled
325
Public schools
11,213
Classroom teachers (FTE)
21.7:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 2,965
  • Kindergarten 15,829
  • Grade 1 17,052
  • Grade 2 17,642
  • Grade 3 18,794
  • Grade 4 17,843
  • Grade 5 18,473
  • Grade 6 17,375
  • Grade 7 18,352
  • Grade 8 19,280
  • Grade 9 19,068
  • Grade 10 19,371
  • Grade 11 19,765
  • Grade 12 21,744

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 39%
  • Black or African American 38%
  • White 16%
  • Asian 4%
  • Two or more races 3%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

38% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 92,863 of 241,843 students in the 317 of its 324 schools that report
  • Free lunch 37%
  • Reduced-price lunch 2%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$13,412 spent per student on day-to-day operations Florida median: $12,447 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $8,250
  • Support services $4,669
  • Other (food service, etc.) $493

Where the money comes from

  • Local 57%
  • State 28%
  • Federal 15%

Total revenue $3.8 billiontotal spending $4.0 billion

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: LargeStudents: 81% suburb, 19% city

Total staff (FTE)

25,876

District office

600 SE 3RD AVE FL 10, Fort Lauderdale FL 33301

County

Broward County

Official website

NCES District ID

1200180

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About BROWARD

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

BCPS is the sixth largest and the largeest fully acccredited K-12 and adult school in the country. Under the leadership of the School Board of Broward County, Florida and Superintendent of Schools Robert W. Runcie, we are "Educationg Today's Students for Tomorroes World."
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