city was $40,839. About 2.6% of families and 5.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.8% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over. As of 2000, speakers of English as their first language were 19.18%, while 74.64% spoke Spanish as theirs. Other languages spoken as a first language are Italian 1.93%, French 1.22%, German at 1.06%, and Portuguese at 0.71%. Media Lighthouse Point is part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood media market, which is the twelfth largest radio market and the seventeenth largest television market in the United States. Its primary daily newspapers are the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The Miami Herald, and their Spanish-language counterparts El Sentinel and El Nuevo Herald. Each house, apartment and business in Lighthouse Point receives the monthly lifestyle magazine "Lighthouse Point" created and mailed by publishers Susan and Richard Rosser. Education Broward County Public Schools serves the community. All residents are zoned to Norcrest Elementary School (Pompano Beach), Deerfield Beach Middle School, and Deerfield Beach High School (located in Deerfield Beach). It is also in the service area of the magnet school Pompano Beach High School. Originally North Broward Preparatory School was located in the city. It was established there in 1957, but is no longer located in Lighthouse Point. Lighthouse Point Library Mission Statement: The Doreen Gauthier Lighthouse Point Library was established (1965) for the purpose of providing community members of all ages with informational, recreational, cultural, and educational enrichment through access to print materials, digital resources, current technologies, services, programs, and a professional library staff. The library has a print collection of over 40,000 circulating titles, patron wifi access, public computers, a fax machine, scanning and printing, AWE Kids Learning Stations, Overdrive eBooks and streaming audio-books, access to the Florida Electronic Library and digital research databases, audio books on CD, DVDs, magazines and newspapers, study rooms (by appointment), and exam proctoring (by appointment only). Notable people Paul Castronovo, radio personality Ben Klassen, founder of the religion Creativity Bruce Nickells, harness racing driver Mike Phipps, College Football Hall of Fame member Nevin Shapiro, University of Miami football booster who is currently imprisoned for orchestrating a $930 million Ponzi scheme John Spadavecchia, poker player References External links City of Lighthouse Point official website Cities in Broward County, Florida Populated places on the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida Cities in Florida 1947 establishments in Florida