Pompano Beach High School. Born: 1926. Died: 1985. Cause of death: declining enrollment. Survivors: generations of Pompano children. No more Beanpickers. No more Tornadoes. After 59 years, the ...

Pompano Beach High was well above the 1,050-point mark for an A, with 1,392 points, and far higher than its neighbor, Blanche Ely High, which earned its first-ever A with 1,094 points.

Blanche Ely High in Pompano Beach tried the approach in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The school was consistently D-rated and dropped the model in 2023. The school has become mainly C-rated.