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Enrollment
597
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000395
COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2420 NW 18TH AVE, MIAMI, FL 33142 · (305) 635-7341 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL597 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
395 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
5
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 | 65 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
20%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
21.9%
FL avg 56.7% . -8.0pp since 2023
Math
40.9%
FL avg 58.9% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.9% | 40.9% |
| 2023-24 | 29.9% | 43.9% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
33.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (33.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 597 | 66.2% | 33.1% |
| CHARLES DAVID WYCHE JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI GARDENS | 568 | 68.1% | 43.2% |
| LANCASTER ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 646 | 68.3% | 40.2% |
| ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 579 | 69.4% | 50.7% |
| BLANCHE H. DAUGHTREY ELEMENTARY BRADENTON | 719 | 66.5% | 35.5% |
| NORTH TWIN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 590 | 64.6% | 53.3% |
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 COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #2,020 of 2,136 | #271 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #1,897 of 2,149 ▼ 219 | #266 of 279 ▼ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.9% | #2,138 of 2,149 ▼ 126 | #277 of 279 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 597 | #1,036 of 2,267 | #98 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #1,287 of 2,077 | #141 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.5% | #1,954 of 2,108 | #144 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.2% | #631 of 2,188 | #76 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +25.7% | #135 of 621 | #19 of 73 |
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
597
+107 (+22%) vs 2020
-60% since 1990-91, when it was 1,507
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 597 | 36 | 16.6:1 | 66% (395) |
| 2023-24 | 585 | 32 | 18.3:1 | 65% (381) |
| 2022-23 | 573 | 34 | 16.9:1 | 64% (366) |
| 2020-21 | 490 | 38 | 12.9:1 | 96% (472) |
| 2017-18 | 475 | 35 | 13.6:1 | 94% (447) |
| 2015-16 | 564 | 35 | 16.1:1 | 99% (560) |
| 2010-11 | 583 | 43 | 13.6:1 | 99% (579) |
| 2000-01 | 728 | 56 | 13.0:1 | 96% (702) |
| 1990-91 | 1,507 | 100 | 15.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The public elementary school COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in MIAMI, Florida. The school had 597 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
MIAMI-DADE serves 335,685 students across 527 schools.
COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls a student body that is 89% Hispanic. It is also 10% Black. For comparison, the population of Miami-Dade County is roughly 69% Hispanic. By the diversity index, COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 20%.
The school reported 36 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 16.6:1. The 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is higher than this school's figure. Eligible students account for 66% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. That is 18 points above the 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County.
COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 14.9 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in Florida.
According to the American Community Survey, in Miami-Dade County, median household income is about $71,753, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County, which together enroll about 335,817 students.
Nearest public school: MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. The five-mile area around COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th of 6 nearby schools, at 33.1% versus a 43.0% average.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 22%, from 490 to 597. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.9:1 to 16.6:1 over the same years.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL covering things like school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- 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
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Other Comstock Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Comstock Elementary. COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Comstock Elementary SchoolMCKINNEY, TX · 680 students
- Comstock Elementary SchoolKALAMAZOO, MI · 597 students
Nearby schools
- MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 620
- MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,213
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS0.8 mi · 36
- SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 532
- EARLY BEGINNINGS ACADEMY0.9 mi · 98
- MATER INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY1.0 mi · 179
Frequently asked questions
About COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 597 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 89% Hispanic, 10% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by MIAMI-DADE in Miami-Dade County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.