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AUBURNDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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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 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About AUBURNDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in MIAMI, Florida, AUBURNDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized K-5 school, operated by MIAMI-DADE. It enrolls 779 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% above the state mean of about 604.
AUBURNDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that educates 335,685 students overall.
On demographics, AUBURNDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). The remainder comes out to 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.
On the income-and-resources front, AUBURNDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AUBURNDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.1%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which AUBURNDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY INTERAMERICAN CAMPUS, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around AUBURNDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AUBURNDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.2%.
The school occupies an urban site.
Five-year trend. AUBURNDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 843 (now 779). Class-load math has widened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.
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