# CHALLENGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-elementary-school-tamarac/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-elementary-school-tamarac

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120018003682`
- **School name**: CHALLENGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: TAMARAC, FL 33321
- **Address**: 5703 NW 94TH AVE
- **District**: BROWARD (LEAID `1200180`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.19472, -80.27690
- **Phone**: (754)322-5750

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 830
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 40.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: A

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.5% (185 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.3% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 15.8% (143 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 32.5%
- **Black/African American**: 2.5%
- **Asian**: 47.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 12.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 48.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.2% — 164 students
- **English Learners**: 21.3% — 192 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 47 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,771
- **Federal share**: $1,908
- **State + local share**: $9,864
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,881,634
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 31.2%
- **Local share**: 49.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,878,709

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,096
- **Poverty rate**: 17.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.1%
- **Unemployment**: 6.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,785
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.7 miles (WINGATE ROAD MUNICIPAL INCINERATOR DUMP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.24 miles (BROWARD COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD PLANTATION SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TAMARAC (WEST), CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.8067 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MILLENNIUM 6-12 COLLEGIATE ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 0.15% (this school: 2.33%)
- **DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.33%)
- **WESTPINE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.33%)
- **ARC BROWARD INC.** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.33%)
- **BANYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0.48% (this school: 2.33%)

### ela proficiency
- **MILLENNIUM 6-12 COLLEGIATE ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 62% (this school: 58.5%)
- **DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 58.5%)
- **WESTPINE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 59% (this school: 58.5%)
- **EVEREST CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 87% (this school: 58.5%)
- **FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE** — 1.1 mi away, 70% (this school: 58.5%)

### math proficiency
- **DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 77% (this school: 65%)
- **EVEREST CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 89% (this school: 65%)
- **FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE** — 1.1 mi away, 73% (this school: 65%)
- **SANDPIPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 67% (this school: 65%)
- **WELLEBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 73% (this school: 65%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-elementary-school-tamarac
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-elementary-school-tamarac/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-elementary-school-tamarac/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-elementary-school-tamarac/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-elementary-school-tamarac/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-elementary-school-tamarac/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-elementary-school-tamarac/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-elementary-school-tamarac/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-elementary-school-tamarac/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-elementary-school-tamarac/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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