DAVID LAWRENCE JR. K-8 CENTER

DAVID LAWRENCE JR. K-8 CENTER operates as an expansive elementary-level community in NORTH MIAMI, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 1,246 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so DAVID LAWRENCE JR. K-8 CENTER sits 106% larger than that benchmark.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, DAVID LAWRENCE JR. K-8 CENTER is one campus in the system.

Demographically, DAVID LAWRENCE JR. K-8 CENTER reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. Beyond that, the school logs 31% Black, 5% White.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, DAVID LAWRENCE JR. K-8 CENTER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.7%, the actual is 51.7%, a residual of -8.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DAVID LAWRENCE JR. K-8 CENTER is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

AMIKIDS MIAMI-DADE NORTH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 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), DAVID LAWRENCE JR. K-8 CENTER ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. DAVID LAWRENCE JR. K-8 CENTER's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 1,507 (now 1,246). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 57% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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