EARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

EARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary campus in MIAMI, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE. The school works with 371 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so EARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 39% below that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, EARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 42% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 15% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, EARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 69% of students at EARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, EARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.3%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) records that median household income runs about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. EARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

The closest other public school is BROWNSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 41.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 427 students in 2018 compared to 371 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 74% to 56% over that span.

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