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ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a compact elementary campus in NORTH MIAMI, Florida, ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL educates 450 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by MIAMI-DADE. That puts it 25% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.
MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 16% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 15% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 53.4%, a residual of +4.9 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) records that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).
The closest other public school is NORTH MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 52.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 20%: 563 students in 2018 compared to 450 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 12% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.
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