BARBARA HAWKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BARBARA HAWKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a micro-enrollment K-5 school in MIAMI GARDENS, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE, enrolls 227 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so BARBARA HAWKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 62% smaller than that benchmark.

BARBARA HAWKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that teaches 335,685 students overall.

Looking at the student body, BARBARA HAWKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 84% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder consists of 14% Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

After controlling for student poverty, BARBARA HAWKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.6%, the actual is 48.0%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Across the wider county, 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 roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), BARBARA HAWKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CAROL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BARBARA HAWKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.4%.

BARBARA HAWKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. BARBARA HAWKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 272 (now 227). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 88% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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