AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 16969 SW 294TH ST, in HOMESTEAD, Florida, AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary-level community that works with 669 students (grades pre-K through 3), part of MIAMI-DADE.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 80% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 15% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.5%; AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 66.5%, +17.0 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Miami-Dade County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 46% since 2018, when it stood at 458 (now 669). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 75% to 80%. Class-load math has rose: from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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