Throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, there were more black students enrolled in Pompano Beach's segregated public schools than there were white students -- often by a significant amount.

In the 1946-47 school year, for instance, white enrollment was 476 while there were 854 black students. In the 1950-51 school year the total enrollment included 700 whites and 997 blacks.

It was not until the 1955-56 school year that white enrollment topped that of blacks.