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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