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Enrollment
669
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000371
AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
16969 SW 294TH ST, HOMESTEAD, FL 33030 · (305) 247-4942 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL669 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of Florida public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
15.2:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
423 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 68 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 156 | 23% |
| Grade 1 | 146 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 153 | 23% |
| Grade 3 | 146 | 22% |
Student demographics
34%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
68.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
76.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 76.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 63.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
66.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 49% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (66.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 669 | 63.2% | 66.5% |
| VENTURA ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 577 | 61.5% | 41.9% |
| HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GREENACRES | 817 | 64.3% | 49.4% |
| WINEGARD ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 650 | 64.3% | 37.2% |
| MORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 731 | 67.3% | 36.6% |
| WOODBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 602 | 62.8% | 35.5% |
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 AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #585 of 2,136 | #86 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #415 of 2,149 ▲ 403 | #74 of 279 ▲ 55 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #513 of 2,149 ▲ 245 | #84 of 279 ▲ 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 669 | #811 of 2,267 | #81 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #769 of 2,077 | #76 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.4% | #1,770 of 2,108 | #94 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.2% | #777 of 2,188 | #105 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +46.1% | #67 of 621 | #12 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
669
+106 (+19%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 668
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 669 | 44 | 15.2:1 | 63% (423) |
| 2023-24 | 636 | 50 | 12.7:1 | 68% (432) |
| 2022-23 | 605 | 46 | 13.2:1 | 74% (445) |
| 2020-21 | 563 | 54 | 10.4:1 | 92% (519) |
| 2017-18 | 458 | 45 | 10.2:1 | 89% (406) |
| 2015-16 | 417 | 37 | 11.3:1 | 93% (386) |
| 2010-11 | 632 | 43 | 14.7:1 | 90% (570) |
| 2000-01 | 852 | 47 | 18.1:1 | 73% (618) |
| 1990-91 | 668 | 38 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a mid-sized elementary school, AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students in HOMESTEAD, Florida. It teaches 669 students in pre-K through 3.
AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a school in MIAMI-DADE. The district has 527 schools and 335,685 students.
The largest group at AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic students, at 80%. Other students are 15% Black and 4% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County residents are about 69% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 34%.
Classroom staffing at AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL totals 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.2:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 63%. Across public schools in Miami-Dade County, the average is 48%.
On the allk12 Grade, AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 83% of Florida public elementary schools.
AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 66.5%. Predicted: 49.5%. Difference: 17.0 points.
In the wider Miami-Dade County area, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The county's public schools total 561, with about 335,817 students.
Of the public schools around it, AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.6 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3rd of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 669, compared with 563 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 15.2:1, from 10.4:1.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in HOMESTEAD
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- HOMESTEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,323 students
- KEYS GATE CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 1,950 students
- SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMSElementary · 1,890 students
- SOUTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,304 students
- GATEWAY ENVIRONMENTAL K-8 LEARNING CENTERElementary · 1,165 students
Other Avocado Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Avocado Elementary. AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Avocado ElementaryLa Mesa, CA · 573 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 3,382
- SOMERSET ARTS ACADEMY1.0 mi · 413
- SOMERSET OAKS ACADEMY1.0 mi · 628
- MEDICAL ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (M.A.S.T.) @ HOM1.3 mi · 511
- CHAMBERS HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 243
- SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES HOMESTEAD1.5 mi · 130
Frequently asked questions
About AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 669 students in grades PK-03.
Is AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-03.
What is the student-teacher ratio at AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.2:1 (44 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 4% White, 80% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
AVOCADO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.