Broward
Ft Lauderdale, FL · 328 schools · 254,732 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Broward has 328 schools serving 254,732 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 46%. The average graduation rate is 76%.
Broward operates 328 public schools, including Cypress Bay High School, Western High School, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Coral Glades High School, J. P. Taravella High School and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Broward is approximately 76% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Broward is Cypress Bay High School with 4,716 students.
Broward serves 254,732 students across 328 schools in FL, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Broward's average proficiency rate of 46% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is around average for US public school districts. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Broward to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.