Lauderhill, Florida, United States

🇺🇸 Lauderhill, officially the City of Lauderhill, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area.

Etymology The development that eventually came to be known as Lauderhill was originally to be named "Sunnydale", but William Safire, a friend of the developer, Herbert Sadkin, convinced him to change his mind. Safire felt that "Sunnydale" sounded like a neighborhood in Brooklyn. Sadkin said there were no hills in the new town, to which Safire replied, "There are probably no dales in Lauderdale, either!" From that discussion, the name "Lauderhill" was coined. The development eventually grew to become Lauderhill, the city.

History Lauderhill was one of two developments (the other in New York) that began largely as off-the-shelf architectural designs which had been available to the public at Macy's department store. The homes, which had been designed by Andrew Geller, had originally been on display at the "Typical American Houses" at the American Exhibition in Moscow. Following a group of approximately 200 of the homes constructed in Montauk, New York in 1963 and 1964, the same developer, Herbert Sadkin of the New York-based All-State Properties reprised his success in New York, building a series of similar homes in Florida, calling the development Lauderhill.

In 2003, the New York Times described the Macy's homes: The package deal included a 730- to 1,200-square-foot house on a 75-by-100-foot lot, as well as state-of-the art appliances, furniture, housewares and everything else a family would need for a weekend in the sun, including toothbrushes and toilet paper. The cost was roughly $13,000 to $17,000.

The Inverrary Country Club was built in 1970, and two years later, its East golf course became home to the new Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic on the PGA Tour, which it hosted through 1983. Gleason himself built his final home on the golf course.

Up until the late 1980s-early 1990s, Lauderhill was mostly a retirement community for Jews and a second home for snowbirds (especially in the Inverrary neighborhood). It is now home to mostly Jamaicans, West Indians, and African Americans, but it still has a sizeable white, Jewish, and Hispanic population in the Northwest section and the Inverrary neighborhood, located north of Oakland Park Boulevard and east of University Drive).

Geography Lauderhill is located in north-central Broward County.

The city borders the following municipalities: • On its north and northeast: Tamarac, Florida • On its northeast: Lauderdale Lakes, Florida • On its east: Fort Lauderdale, Florida • On its south: Plantation, Florida • On its south-west and west: Sunrise, Florida

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 8.6 square miles (22.2 km²), of which 8.5 square miles (22.1 km²) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) is water (0.37%).

Sport On November 9, 2007, in the Central Broward Park, the Main Event cricket field, owned by Broward County, was opened.

On May 22, 2010, it became the first ground to host an international between two full members of the ICC (New Zealand and Sri Lanka) on U.S. soil after the games' World governing body gave its certification. The West Indies cricket team, who are the nearest premier cricketing region, have played there the most times.

The park features many other sports venues as well.

Education Broward County Public Schools operates public schools.

Elementary schools in the Lauderhill city limits include: • Broward Estates • Castle Hill • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Montessori • Endeavour Primary Learning Center (K–3, with 4–5 students in the zone to Royal Palm) • Larkdale • Lauderhill Paul Turner • Royal Palm

Students in other sections of Lauderhill are zoned to the following elementary schools: Banyan (Sunrise), Discovery (Sunrise), Park Lakes (Lauderdale Lakes), Plantation (Plantation), and Village (Sunrise).

Middle schools with attendance zones serving Lauderhill include: • Lauderhill 6-12 School • Parkway Middle School • Lauderdale Lakes Middle School in Lauderdale Lakes • Millennium 6-12 Collegiate Academy in Tamarac • Westpine Middle School in Sunrise

High schools with attendance zones serving Lauderhill include: • Boyd H. Anderson High School in Lauderdale Lakes • Piper High School in Sunrise • Dillard High School (for 9–12 only) in Fort Lauderdale

A section of Lauderhill has a choice between Anderson and Piper. Lauderhill 6–12's high school program has no zoning boundary per se, but people who live in the middle school boundary have priority for admission. While Millennium's high school has no boundary, previous Millennium Middle students have priority for admission.

Charter schools include Rise Academy and Rise Academy II.

The University of Fort Lauderdale is located in Lauderhill.