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CAMPBELL DRIVE K-8 CENTER
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CAMPBELL DRIVE K-8 CENTER
Set in HOMESTEAD, Florida, CAMPBELL DRIVE K-8 CENTER is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE. It caters to 844 students across grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 40% bigger than the state mean of about 604.
MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; CAMPBELL DRIVE K-8 CENTER is among them.
Demographically, CAMPBELL DRIVE K-8 CENTER reports that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 20% Black. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.
With demographic context factored in, CAMPBELL DRIVE K-8 CENTER tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.1%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) records that median household earnings sit near $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which CAMPBELL DRIVE K-8 CENTER is one.
The closest other public school is CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION A CAMBRIDGE ASSOCIATE SC, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CAMPBELL DRIVE K-8 CENTER. On composite proficiency, CAMPBELL DRIVE K-8 CENTER comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.5%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CAMPBELL DRIVE K-8 CENTER has declined 16%, going from 1,000 students in 2018 to 844 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 24% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.
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