CHARLES R DREW K-8 CENTER

CHARLES R DREW K-8 CENTER is a primary school of intimate scale in MIAMI, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE, caters to 461 students in grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 604.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), CHARLES R DREW K-8 CENTER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, CHARLES R DREW K-8 CENTER shows that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 10% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 15% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, CHARLES R DREW K-8 CENTER logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 79% of students at CHARLES R DREW K-8 CENTER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, CHARLES R DREW K-8 CENTER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.8%; this one delivers 40.1%.

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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which CHARLES R DREW K-8 CENTER is one.

AGENORIA S PASCHAL/OLINDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CHARLES R DREW K-8 CENTER comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. CHARLES R DREW K-8 CENTER's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 579 (now 461). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 6% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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