DR. MANUEL C. BARREIRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DR. MANUEL C. BARREIRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized primary school in MIAMI, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE. The school caters to 530 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), DR. MANUEL C. BARREIRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DR. MANUEL C. BARREIRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 3% Asian. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, DR. MANUEL C. BARREIRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DR. MANUEL C. BARREIRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.7%, the actual is 75.3%, a residual of +11.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) reports 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%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which DR. MANUEL C. BARREIRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LAMAR LOUISE CURRY MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DR. MANUEL C. BARREIRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 69.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 30%: 754 students in 2018 compared to 530 in 2025.

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