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Enrollment
1,404
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039003831
BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER
15901 NW 79TH AVE, MIAMI LAKES, FL 33016 · (305) 557-3303 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,404 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of Florida public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
82 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
568 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 138 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 142 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 171 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 169 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 170 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 141 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 177 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 171 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 46% smaller than its 8th grade class (171).
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). 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
BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER→HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
71.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.1pp since 2023
Math
74.2%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.5% | 74.2% |
| 2023-24 | 67.4% | 74.4% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
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
70.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 →
Schools most like BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER
BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER's state test result (70.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER this school | 1,404 | 40.5% | 70.2% |
| MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER HIALEAH | 1,196 | 41.6% | 65.9% |
| PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 1,422 | 45.3% | 63.9% |
| CORAL WAY K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 1,038 | 39.7% | 63.2% |
| NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 996 | 41.5% | 76.8% |
| WINSTON PARK K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 1,067 | 45.2% | 72.1% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.2% | #450 of 2,136 | #66 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.2% | #484 of 2,149 ▼ 85 | #85 of 279 ▼ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.5% | #383 of 2,149 ▲ 64 | #65 of 279 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,404 | #42 of 2,267 | #8 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #1,455 of 2,077 | #159 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.2% | #1,988 of 2,108 | #165 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.5% | #1,566 of 2,188 | #213 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.4% | #600 of 1,374 | #111 of 185 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,404
-79 (-5%) vs 2020
-30% since 2010-11, when it was 2,013
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 16.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,404 | 82 | 17.1:1 | 40% (568) |
| 2023-24 | 1,465 | 84 | 17.4:1 | 46% (672) |
| 2022-23 | 1,469 | 87 | 16.9:1 | 46% (674) |
| 2020-21 | 1,483 | 92 | 16.1:1 | 58% (854) |
| 2017-18 | 1,699 | 106 | 16.0:1 | 52% (887) |
| 2015-16 | 1,773 | 104 | 17.1:1 | 55% (981) |
| 2010-11 | 2,013 | 122 | 16.5:1 | 51% (1,022) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER.
About BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER
This page covers BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER, a high-enrollment elementary school in MIAMI LAKES, Florida. It reported 1,404 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Florida have about 604 students on average; enrollment here is 132% higher.
BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER is in MIAMI-DADE, a district with 335,685 students across 527 schools.
BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER is 91% Hispanic by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 4% White and 3% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Miami-Dade County's population at about 69%. The diversity index for BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER is 16%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
A staff of 82 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 17.1:1. The 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is close to this figure. By family income, 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Miami-Dade County, the average eligibility rate is 48%.
Among Florida public elementary schools, BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER outscored 81%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 60.9%. BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER scores 70.2%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Miami-Dade County show that the median household earns about $71,753 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Across Miami-Dade County, 561 public schools serve about 335,817 students.
A public school about 1.2 miles away, PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is the closest to BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER. On proficiency, BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER is ahead of the 58.8% nearby average, ranking 1st of 9.
NCES describes the area around BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 5% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 17.1 students per teacher, compared with 16.1 in 2020-21.
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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
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- 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 LAKES
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
- MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTERHigh · 1,109 students
- MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER AND TECHNICAL COLLEGEHigh
Nearby schools
- PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,422
- MATER LAKES COLLEGIATE ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 332
- MATER LAKES COLLEGIATE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 288
- MATER ACADEMY LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 870
- MATER ACADEMY LAKES HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,201
- MIAMI LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 987
Frequently asked questions
About BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTERWhat is the total enrollment at BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER?
BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER enrolls approximately 1,404 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER serve?
BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER is approximately 17.1:1 (82 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER?
Student demographics at BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER are roughly 4% White, 91% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER in?
BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER is part of MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.