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What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 14 points.
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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%.
DR. HENRY W. MACK/WEST LITTLE RIVER K-8 CENTER is an elementary campus of tight-knit scale in MIAMI, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE, enrolling 383 students in grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 37% below the state mean of about 604.
Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), DR. HENRY W. MACK/WEST LITTLE RIVER K-8 CENTER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, DR. HENRY W. MACK/WEST LITTLE RIVER K-8 CENTER records that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 49% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 64% of students at DR. HENRY W. MACK/WEST LITTLE RIVER K-8 CENTER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, DR. HENRY W. MACK/WEST LITTLE RIVER K-8 CENTER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.1%, the actual is 47.2%, a residual of -1.9 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), DR. HENRY W. MACK/WEST LITTLE RIVER K-8 CENTER is one campus in the mix.
STELLAR LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 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 DR. HENRY W. MACK/WEST LITTLE RIVER K-8 CENTER at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 37.7%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DR. HENRY W. MACK/WEST LITTLE RIVER K-8 CENTER has decreased 12%, going from 433 students in 2018 to 383 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 65% to 49%.
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