BISCAYNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BISCAYNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in MIAMI BEACH, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE, with 525 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, BISCAYNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 10% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting BISCAYNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 54% of students at BISCAYNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BISCAYNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.1%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), BISCAYNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BISCAYNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BISCAYNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 71.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. BISCAYNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 28% since 2018, when it stood at 729 (now 525).

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.