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Enrollment
1,032
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039004068
AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL
3333 NE 188TH ST, AVENTURA, FL 33180 · (305) 466-1499 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL1,032 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 80% 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.
- B-Beats 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
17.2:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
0%
5 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 | 120 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 116 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 117 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 119 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 118 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 122 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 108 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 114 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 98 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (120) is 22% larger than its 8th grade class (98).
Student demographics
52%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
81.1%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.5pp since 2023
Math
90.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 81 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 have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.1% | 90.9% |
| 2023-24 | 81.6% | 90.1% |
% 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
83.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
80.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 81% 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 AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL
AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL's state test result (83.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL this school | 1,032 | 0.5% | 83.3% |
| TRINITY SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN TAMPA | 910 | 1.6% | 66.5% |
| LEARNING GATE COMMUNITY SCHOOL LUTZ | 761 | 4.5% | 70.2% |
| HOLLYWOOD ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCE HOLLYWOOD | 1,140 | 8.2% | 79.9% |
| LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY RUSKIN | 813 | 9.5% | 51.3% |
| PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 654 | 12.1% | 90.2% |
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 AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.3% | #78 of 2,136 | #19 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.9% | #38 of 2,149 ▲ 3 | #14 of 279 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.1% | #120 of 2,149 ▼ 37 | #33 of 279 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,032 | #179 of 2,267 | #27 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #1,484 of 2,077 | #164 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.1% | #1,269 of 2,108 | #22 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 0.5% | #2,187 of 2,188 | #283 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.1% | #577 of 621 | #67 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
1,032
-2 (0%) vs 2020
+6% since 2010-11, when it was 972
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 1,032 | 60 | 17.2:1 | 0% (5) |
| 2023-24 | 1,032 | 64 | 16.1:1 | 0% (5) |
| 2022-23 | 1,032 | 65 | 15.9:1 | 1% (13) |
| 2020-21 | 1,034 | 65 | 15.9:1 | 1% (13) |
| 2017-18 | 1,021 | 103 | 9.9:1 | 1% (14) |
| 2015-16 | 1,020 | 80 | 12.8:1 | 1% (9) |
| 2010-11 | 972 | 78 | 12.5:1 | 11% (107) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL.
About AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL
AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL is an elementary school with a street address in AVENTURA, Florida. Its enrollment is 1,032 students, spread over kindergarten through 8. That compares with an average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
MIAMI-DADE is the district for AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL. It has 527 schools and 335,685 students.
More than half of enrollment at AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL is White: 53%. The remaining shares are 44% Hispanic. Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 27% White, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL scores 52%.
Staffing at AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL comes to 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.2:1. The 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is close to this figure. AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL counts 0% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Miami-Dade County averages 48%, higher than here.
AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 80% of Florida public elementary schools.
AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 83.3% and a predicted 80.9%.
Looking at the county, Miami-Dade County, median household income comes to about $71,753, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The county has 561 public schools and about 335,817 students.
OJUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.8 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 61.8%; AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL's is 83.3%, ranking 1st of 9.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL is a publicly funded charter school.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 1,034 in 2020-21 and 1,032 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 15.9:1 to 17.2:1.
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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
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- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in AVENTURA
- DON SOFFER AVENTURA CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 820 students
Nearby schools
- OJUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 835
- NORMAN S. EDELCUP/SUNNY ISLES BEACH K-80.9 mi · 1,729
- BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF NORTH MIAMI BEACH1.2 mi · 656
- HIGHLAND OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 736
- VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL1.6 mi · 586
- DON SOFFER AVENTURA CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 820
Frequently asked questions
About AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOLHow many students attend AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL?
AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,032 students in grades KG-08.
Is AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL is approximately 17.2:1 (60 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL are roughly 53% White, 44% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL in?
AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL is part of MIAMI-DADE.
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