23 public K-12 schools in Pompano Beach from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Pompano Beach has more public-school enrollment than 86% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pompano Beach's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
15 of Pompano Beach's 23 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
Pompano Beach's reporting schools show 67.9% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 19.1:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 67-point gap between Cross Creek School and Robert C. Markham Elementary is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.
Pompano Beach school enrollment ranges from 22 students (lowest) to 1,877 students (highest), a spread of 1,855 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Pompano Beach's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
17% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Cross Creek School | 84 |
| 2. | Broward Children's Center North | 48 |
| 3. | Innovation Charter School | 46 |
| 4. | Pompano Beach High School | 45 |
| 5. | Cypress Run Alternative Center | 45 |
| 6. | Somerset Pines Academy | 40 |
| 7. | Crystal Lake Middle School | 37 |
| 8. | Bright Horizons | 35 |
| 9. | Blanche Ely High School | 34 |
| 10. | Somerset Academy Pompano (K-5) | 34 |
| 11. | Pompano Beach Middle School | 32 |
| 12. | Cresthaven Elementary School | 32 |
| 13. | Andrews High School | 32 |
| 14. | Mcnab Elementary School | 30 |
| 15. | Palmview Elementary School | 30 |
| 16. | Pompano Beach Elementary School | 29 |
| 17. | Norcrest Elementary School | 27 |
| 18. | Tedder Elementary School | 27 |
| 19. | Cypress Elementary School | 25 |
| 20. | Park Ridge Elementary School | 24 |
| 21. | Sanders Park Elementary School | 23 |
| 22. | Charles Drew Elementary School | 20 |
| 23. | Robert C. Markham Elementary | 17 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Cross Creek School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pompano Beach schools in this federal-data comparison at 84/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Pompano Beach has 23 public schools with a total enrollment of 12,845 students. 4 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.1:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
