CARIBBEAN K-8 CENTER

Set in MIAMI, Florida, CARIBBEAN K-8 CENTER is a mid-tier K-5 school, operated by MIAMI-DADE. It enrolls 752 students across grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 25% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. CARIBBEAN K-8 CENTER is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, CARIBBEAN K-8 CENTER reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 31% Black.

On the resource side, CARIBBEAN K-8 CENTER lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CARIBBEAN K-8 CENTER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.2%, the actual is 48.0%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. CARIBBEAN K-8 CENTER is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

SOMERSET COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CARIBBEAN K-8 CENTER ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.7%.

CARIBBEAN K-8 CENTER operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 840 students in 2018 compared to 752 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 43% to 31%.

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