ARTHUR AND POLLY MAYS CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS

ARTHUR AND POLLY MAYS CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS is one of the close-knit 9-12 campuss in GOULDS, Florida, overseen by MIAMI-DADE, with 514 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so ARTHUR AND POLLY MAYS CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS sits 50% smaller than that benchmark.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, ARTHUR AND POLLY MAYS CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ARTHUR AND POLLY MAYS CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS shows that 55% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 36% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

In terms of school funding signals, ARTHUR AND POLLY MAYS CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Roughly 55% of students at ARTHUR AND POLLY MAYS CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, ARTHUR AND POLLY MAYS CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.2%.

Across the wider county, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household earnings sit near $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which ARTHUR AND POLLY MAYS CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS is one.

PINE VILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARTHUR AND POLLY MAYS CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS. On composite proficiency, ARTHUR AND POLLY MAYS CONSERVATORY OF THE ARTS comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 19%: 631 students in 2018 compared to 514 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 44% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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