Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 17 points.
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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%.
As an average-sized elementary school in HOMESTEAD, Florida, DR. WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL caters to 515 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of MIAMI-DADE.
MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; DR. WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.
Looking at the student body, DR. WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 47% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably less Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting DR. WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DR. WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.3%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of -2.4 points.
Zooming out to the county, Miami-Dade County reports that 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%. DR. WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).
Nearest neighbor: MIAMI MACARTHUR EDUCATIONAL CENTER, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DR. WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, DR. WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.0%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Five-year trend. DR. WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 523 (now 515). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 43% to 50% over that span.
On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
