BEL-AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BEL-AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a compact K-5 school in CUTLER BAY, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE. The school works with 324 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so BEL-AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 46% leaner than that benchmark.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. BEL-AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BEL-AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school records 22% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BEL-AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 64% of students at BEL-AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, BEL-AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.0%.

In the broader community, Miami-Dade County reports that 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), BEL-AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CUTLER BAY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BEL-AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. BEL-AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 20% since 2018, when it stood at 271 (now 324). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 52% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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