DR. TONI BILBAO PREPARATORY ACADEMY

DR. TONI BILBAO PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a medium-sized elementary-level community in DORAL, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE. The school enrolls 580 students in grades pre-K through 8.

DR. TONI BILBAO PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that instructs 335,685 students overall.

In terms of who attends, DR. TONI BILBAO PREPARATORY ACADEMY lists that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 3% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, DR. TONI BILBAO PREPARATORY ACADEMY logs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DR. TONI BILBAO PREPARATORY ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.2%, the actual is 64.0%, a residual of -4.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Miami-Dade County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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. TONI BILBAO PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: DR. ROLANDO ESPINOSA K-8 CENTER, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DR. TONI BILBAO PREPARATORY ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DR. TONI BILBAO PREPARATORY ACADEMY at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 58.3%.

DR. TONI BILBAO PREPARATORY ACADEMY operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 121%: 263 students in 2018 compared to 580 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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