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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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