spoken by 19.50% of the populace. In this "southernmost Canadian city" French was spoken by 5.23% of the population, most of them French Canadians. Other languages spoken at home were Romanian at 2.71%, Italian at 1.96%, French Creole at 1.80%, Yiddish 1.70%, Russian 1.32%, German 1.27%, Hungarian at 1.17%, Polish at 0.85%, Hebrew at 0.77%, and Portuguese, spoken by 0.72% of all residents. Public schools Hallandale Beach's public schools are part of Broward County Public Schools. In almost all areas, elementary and middle school students are zoned for Gulfstream Academy of Hallandale Beach K–8. A portion of the city is zoned to Colbert Elementary School and McNicol Middle School. In all areas, high school students are zoned for Hallandale High School. Private academies eschewing the public system are present in the area. Media Hallandale Beach is a part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood media market, which is the 12th largest radio market and the 17th 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. The Broward-Palm Beach New Times, an alternative weekly, is widely available around the city. Hallandale Beach has its own newspaper, The South Florida Sun-Times which is published weekly. Public transportation Hallandale Beach is served by several bus routes operated by Broward County Transit. A free community minibus service, operated by the city of Hallandale Beach, also operates on four routes within the city limits and neighboring areas of Hollywood and Aventura. Notable people Iris Acker (1930–2018), arts advocate, actress (Flight of the Navigator), dancer and television host Stewart H. Appleby (1890–1964), represented from 1925–1927, and retired to Hallandale Beach Morris Childs (1902–1991), double agent for the F.B.I. against the Soviet Union. Childs lived in a Hallandale safe house from his retirement in 1986 until his death in 1991 Davin Joseph, 1st Round NFL Pick Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2006 Meyer Lansky (1902–1983), Jewish gangster; financial wizard of the National Crime Syndicate Anthony Provenzano, mobster featured in the movie The Irishman See also Hallandale Beach Police Department References External links City of Hallandale Beach official site Cities in Broward County, Florida Populated coastal places in Florida on the Atlantic Ocean Cities in Florida Beaches of Broward County, Florida Beaches of Florida 1927 establishments in Florida Populated places established in 1927