Summary:
Zip code 33315 is home to a single high school, Whiddon Rodgers Education Center, a public school in the Broward County district serving grades 6 through 12 with a total enrollment of 655 students.
Whiddon Rodgers Education Center is a significant outlier compared to district and state averages, facing severe challenges. The school has a critically low graduation rate of 49.0% for the 2024-2025 school year, compared to the district average of 91.4% and state average of 92.2%. Chronic absenteeism is an extreme 87.3% for the 2023-2024 school year, nearly 2.6 times higher than the district (33.6%) and state (31.4%) averages. Academic proficiency rates are dramatically low across all subjects, with only 18% of students proficient in Biology 1 (district: 77%, state: 74%), 30% in Algebra 1 (district: 68%, state: 63%), and 29% in 10th grade ELA (district: 64%, state: 61%). The school's state ranking has been in the bottom 16th percentile for the past two years.
Despite spending $16,796 per student—above the national average—the school's outcomes are among the worst in Florida. The school serves a majority low-income population, with 58.93% of students receiving free or reduced lunch. The school's structure (grades 6-12) and extreme metrics strongly suggest it functions as an alternative or special-purpose school, likely serving students who have struggled in traditional settings. This context is crucial for parents: the data reflects the immense challenges of its student population rather than a failure of a typical school, but the foundational issue of chronic absenteeism must be addressed for any improvement to occur.
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