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ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-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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