Enrollment
348
Combined
DISTRICT 384 · STATE 353
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000379
BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
9250 SW 52ND TER, MIAMI, FL 33165 · (305) 271-6046 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL348 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
132 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGH
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
59.6%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.3pp since 2023
Math
55.1%
FL avg 58.9% . -16.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 16 points.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
348
-114 (-25%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 9.2:1
% White
3%
was 6%
% Hispanic
94%
was 92%
% Black
1%
was 2%
% Asian
1%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a middle-of-the-pack unified-grade school in MIAMI, Florida, BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL teaches 348 students from grades pre-K through 12, part of MIAMI-DADE.
MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). The remainder breaks down as 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 38% of students at BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.2%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of +0.5 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).
Nearest neighbor: PREK INTERVENTION, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 70.8%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 25%: 462 students in 2018 compared to 348 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 9.2:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.
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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 MIAMI
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Nearby schools
- PREK INTERVENTION0.1 mi · 355
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGH0.4 mi · 2,599
- GLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 533
- TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT GATEWAY0.9 mi · 333
- SNAPPER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 362
- OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 318
Frequently asked questions
About BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 348 students in grades PK-12.
What age range does BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 12.
How many teachers does BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 3% White, 94% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
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