CORAL WAY K-8 CENTER

CORAL WAY K-8 CENTER is one of the roomy K-5 schools in MIAMI, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE, with 1,038 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 72% larger than typical.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, CORAL WAY K-8 CENTER records that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 8% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CORAL WAY K-8 CENTER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.3%, the actual is 63.2%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Miami-Dade County put 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%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), CORAL WAY K-8 CENTER is one campus in the mix.

SHENANDOAH MIDDLE 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. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CORAL WAY K-8 CENTER at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 57.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 22%: 1,327 students in 2018 compared to 1,038 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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