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Enrollment
818
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039002054
DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER
10501 SW 122ND AVE, MIAMI, FL 33186 · (305) 274-7100 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL818 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of Florida public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
308 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 14 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 92 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 109 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 130 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 56% smaller than its 8th grade class (130).
Student demographics
26%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER→MIAMI KILLIAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
69.7%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
71.5%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.7% | 71.5% |
| 2023-24 | 67.3% | 72.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
70.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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%.
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 DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER
DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER's state test result (70.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER this school | 818 | 37.7% | 70.0% |
| MIAMI BEACH FEINBERG/FISHER K-8 MIAMI BEACH | 851 | 40.9% | 46.4% |
| KENWOOD K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 759 | 33.6% | 63.8% |
| JACK DAVID GORDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 805 | 42.0% | 72.5% |
| NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 996 | 41.5% | 76.8% |
| JANE S. ROBERTS K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 630 | 37.9% | 70.8% |
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 DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #462 of 2,136 | #69 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.5% | #587 of 2,149 ▼ 129 | #100 of 279 ▼ 25 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.7% | #450 of 2,149 ▲ 5 | #76 of 279 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 818 | #425 of 2,267 | #55 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #1,335 of 2,077 | #149 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.7% | #1,909 of 2,108 | #126 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.7% | #1,651 of 2,188 | #223 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -45.5% | #36 of 1,374 | #10 of 185 |
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
818
-340 (-29%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 1,230
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 818 | 49 | 16.7:1 | 38% (308) |
| 2023-24 | 891 | 56 | 15.9:1 | 39% (344) |
| 2022-23 | 1,029 | 57 | 18.1:1 | 41% (420) |
| 2020-21 | 1,158 | 67 | 17.3:1 | 56% (654) |
| 2017-18 | 1,501 | 92 | 16.3:1 | 50% (754) |
| 2015-16 | 1,524 | 91 | 16.8:1 | 55% (841) |
| 2010-11 | 1,547 | 97 | 15.9:1 | 48% (742) |
| 2000-01 | 860 | 43 | 20.0:1 | 29% (251) |
| 1990-91 | 1,230 | 63 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER.
About DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER
A mid-sized elementary school in MIAMI, Florida, DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER is part of MIAMI-DADE. Its grade span covers pre-K through 8, with 818 students on the rolls. That compares with an average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
MIAMI-DADE has 527 schools; together they serve 335,685 students.
Of every 100 students at DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER, about 86 are Hispanic. It is also 7% White, 4% Black, and 2% Asian. For comparison, the population of Miami-Dade County is roughly 69% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 26, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 49 full-time-equivalent teachers at DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER, giving a ratio of 16.7:1. Elementary schools in Florida have an average ratio of 17.5:1. By family income, 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 48% average among public schools in Miami-Dade County.
DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 78% of Florida public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER would score about 62.3%. It scores 70.0%, 7.8 points above that figure.
The school is in Miami-Dade County, where the median household earns about $71,753 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER shares Miami-Dade County with 560 other public schools.
WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.7 miles from DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER comes in 7th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 29%, from 1,158 to 818.
DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
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
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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
Nearby schools
- WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 522
- ARVIDA MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 989
- BEN GAMLA CHARTER SCHOOL1.0 mi · 165
- SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY SUNSET1.0 mi · 350
- SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES - SOUTH1.1 mi · 290
- SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL1.5 mi · 224
Frequently asked questions
About DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTERWhat is the total enrollment at DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER?
DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER enrolls approximately 818 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER serve?
DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER have?
DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.7:1.
What is the student diversity at DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER?
Student demographics at DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER are roughly 7% White, 86% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER in?
DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER is part of MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.