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Enrollment
780
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039004072
ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER
660 SW 3RD ST, MIAMI, FL 33130 · (305) 326-0791 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL780 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Florida public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
146 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 78 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 105 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 86 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 69 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 13% larger than its 8th grade class (69).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
85.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.5pp since 2023
Math
91.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.1% | 91.4% |
| 2023-24 | 82.5% | 89.6% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
84.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER
ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER's state test result (84.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER this school | 780 | 18.7% | 84.9% |
| MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH MIAMI | 664 | 17.5% | 74.7% |
| VINELAND K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 671 | 22.1% | 78.0% |
| GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORAL GABLES | 563 | 16.5% | 89.9% |
| CORAL GABLES PREPARATORY ACADEMY CORAL GABLES | 812 | 27.2% | 73.4% |
| SOMERSET GABLES ACADEMY CORAL GABLES | 556 | 22.1% | 85.7% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.9% | #59 of 2,136 | #17 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 91.4% | #32 of 2,149 ▲ 13 | #12 of 279 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.1% | #61 of 2,149 ▲ 7 | #19 of 279 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 780 | #513 of 2,267 | #66 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #1,301 of 2,077 | #144 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.1% | #1,685 of 2,108 | #78 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.7% | #2,019 of 2,188 | #261 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.0% | #442 of 621 | #50 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
780
+20 (+3%) vs 2020
+8% since 2010-11, when it was 722
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 15.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 780 | 47 | 16.6:1 | 19% (146) |
| 2023-24 | 770 | 46 | 16.7:1 | 23% (175) |
| 2022-23 | 747 | 46 | 16.2:1 | 24% (177) |
| 2020-21 | 760 | 49 | 15.5:1 | 36% (275) |
| 2017-18 | 743 | 48 | 15.5:1 | 33% (244) |
| 2015-16 | 731 | 48 | 15.2:1 | 34% (245) |
| 2010-11 | 722 | 50 | 14.4:1 | 32% (229) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER.
About ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER
ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER sits in MIAMI, Florida, and is classified as an elementary school. The school covers pre-K through 8 and reported 780 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 29% bigger than the 604-student average for elementary schools in Florida.
District-wide, MIAMI-DADE has 527 schools and 335,685 students.
Of every 100 students at ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER, about 75 are Hispanic. It is also 23% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 39%.
The school has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 16.6 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 0.9 more students per teacher than here. Of all students at ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER, 19% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 48% average among public schools in Miami-Dade County.
ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 96% of Florida public elementary schools.
Compared with Florida schools that have similar shares of low-income students, ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER's results are 13.1 points above predicted: 84.9% against 71.8%.
The county, Miami-Dade County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $71,753, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county has 561 public schools and about 335,817 students.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, MATER ACADEMY EAST CHARTER SCHOOL, is the closest to ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER. ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER ranks 3rd on proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment increased 3% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Students per teacher increased from 15.5 in 2020-21 to 16.6 in 2024-25.
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Miami-Dade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,738,356
Census ACS
Median income
$71,753
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
561
335,817 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in MIAMI
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Nearby schools
- MATER ACADEMY EAST CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 573
- CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS0.4 mi · 179
- LINCOLN-MARTI CHARTER SCHOOL (LITTLE HAVANA CAMPUS)0.4 mi · 674
- MATER ACADEMY KIWANIS0.4 mi · 236
- MATER ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY0.4 mi · 20
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 842
Frequently asked questions
About ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTERHow large is ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER?
ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER enrolls approximately 780 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER serve?
ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER have?
ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER employs 47 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
What is the student diversity at ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER?
Student demographics at ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER are roughly 23% White, 75% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER in?
ADA MERRITT K-8 CENTER is part of MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.