DOWNTOWN MIAMI CHARTER SCHOOL

Set in MIAMI, Florida, DOWNTOWN MIAMI CHARTER SCHOOL is a compact primary school, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE. It hosts 442 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 27% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; DOWNTOWN MIAMI CHARTER SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, DOWNTOWN MIAMI CHARTER SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 44% Black, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably less Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, DOWNTOWN MIAMI CHARTER SCHOOL logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 7% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DOWNTOWN MIAMI CHARTER SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 77.9%; DOWNTOWN MIAMI CHARTER SCHOOL posts 42.9%, -35.0 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) records that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. DOWNTOWN MIAMI CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

The closest other public school is LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DOWNTOWN MIAMI CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 65.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site. DOWNTOWN MIAMI CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 29%: 626 students in 2018 compared to 442 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 61% to 44% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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