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CHARLES R HADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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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 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 CHARLES R HADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHARLES R HADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in MIAMI, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE. The school hosts 595 students in grades pre-K through 5.
MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. CHARLES R HADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, CHARLES R HADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.
In terms of school funding signals, CHARLES R HADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHARLES R HADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.8%; this one delivers 55.5%.
In the area at large, 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 HADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is PINECREST NORTH PREPARATORY (FONTAINEBLEAU CAMPUS), roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CHARLES R HADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.9%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Trend over the last 7 years. CHARLES R HADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 35% since 2018, when it stood at 918 (now 595).
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