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How has DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
513
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000494
DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS
8851 SW 168TH ST, PALMETTO BAY, FL 33157 · (305) 235-2442 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL513 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Florida public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
15.1:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
283 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 | 17 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 46% smaller than its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
52%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
DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS→SOUTHWOOD MIDDLE 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
67.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.3pp since 2023
Math
70.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.2% | 70.7% |
| 2023-24 | 61.9% | 63.4% |
% 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
64.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS
DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS's state test result (64.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS this school | 513 | 55.2% | 64.6% |
| OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OAKLAND PARK | 522 | 55.6% | 42.4% |
| WEST HOLLYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 414 | 54.6% | 42.3% |
| BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY JACKSONVILLE | 463 | 54.6% | 28.4% |
| BOULEVARD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY HOLLYWOOD | 566 | 49.6% | 48.7% |
| HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 408 | 54.9% | 69.9% |
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 DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.6% | #659 of 2,136 | #96 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.7% | #618 of 2,149 ▲ 192 | #107 of 279 ▲ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.2% | #546 of 2,149 ▲ 103 | #88 of 279 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 513 | #1,364 of 2,267 | #140 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #724 of 2,077 | #72 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.4% | #1,255 of 2,108 | #19 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.2% | #1,079 of 2,188 | #141 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.8% | #225 of 1,374 | #55 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
513
-76 (-13%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 758
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 513 | 34 | 15.1:1 | 55% (283) |
| 2023-24 | 535 | 35 | 15.3:1 | 58% (309) |
| 2022-23 | 550 | 37 | 14.9:1 | 59% (325) |
| 2020-21 | 589 | 42 | 14.0:1 | 72% (427) |
| 2017-18 | 721 | 49 | 14.7:1 | 70% (508) |
| 2015-16 | 777 | 51 | 15.2:1 | 71% (549) |
| 2010-11 | 802 | 54 | 14.8:1 | 67% (536) |
| 2000-01 | 685 | 37 | 18.5:1 | 65% (442) |
| 1990-91 | 758 | 46 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS.
About DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS
DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in PALMETTO BAY, Florida. The school reports 513 students in pre-K through 5.
MIAMI-DADE oversees DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS and 526 other schools, with 335,685 students in total.
At DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS, Hispanic students make up 62% of the student body. Next come 30% Black and 5% White. The school's diversity index is 52%, meaning two students picked at random have a 52% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school employs the equivalent of 34 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 15.1:1. That is 2.4 students per teacher below the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS is 55%.
DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 77% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS is 11.1 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 64.6% actual, 53.5% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Florida.
County data help place the school in context: in Miami-Dade County, the median household income is $71,753, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. In all, Miami-Dade County has 561 public schools and roughly 335,817 students.
SOUTHWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is located about 0.9 miles from DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS. The five-mile area around DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 66.6%, higher than DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS's 64.6%.
Under the NCES locale system, DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has fallen by 76 students since 2020-21, to 513. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 15.1:1, from 14.0:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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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Nearby schools
- SOUTHWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,063
- CORAL REEF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 696
- ROBERT RUSSA MOTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 168
- BOYSTOWN1.5 mi · 44
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- WHISPERING PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 500
Frequently asked questions
About DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTSHow large is DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS?
DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS enrolls approximately 513 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS serve?
DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS have?
DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1.
How diverse is DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS?
DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS reports a student body of 5% White, 62% Hispanic, 30% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS?
DR. HENRY E. PERRINE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS 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.