DR. ROBERT B. INGRAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DR. ROBERT B. INGRAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of minimally staffed scale in OPA LOCKA, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE, works with 232 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so DR. ROBERT B. INGRAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 62% smaller than that benchmark.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. DR. ROBERT B. INGRAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DR. ROBERT B. INGRAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Black students make up the majority at 63%. Beyond that, the school records 36% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, DR. ROBERT B. INGRAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 41.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which DR. ROBERT B. INGRAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DR. ROBERT B. INGRAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. DR. ROBERT B. INGRAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 43% since 2018, when it stood at 406 (now 232). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 73% to 63% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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