FRANCIS S.TUCKER K-8 CENTER

FRANCIS S.TUCKER K-8 CENTER operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in MIAMI, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 344 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so FRANCIS S.TUCKER K-8 CENTER sits 43% leaner than that benchmark.

MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; FRANCIS S.TUCKER K-8 CENTER is among them.

On demographics, FRANCIS S.TUCKER K-8 CENTER logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment; the rest reads as 34% Black, 3% White, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

In terms of school funding signals, FRANCIS S.TUCKER K-8 CENTER records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting FRANCIS S.TUCKER K-8 CENTER tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 59% 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 above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FRANCIS S.TUCKER K-8 CENTER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.5%; this one delivers 45.4%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate 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%. FRANCIS S.TUCKER K-8 CENTER is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

Nearest neighbor: GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FRANCIS S.TUCKER K-8 CENTER. On composite proficiency, FRANCIS S.TUCKER K-8 CENTER comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 77.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 4%: 332 students in 2018 compared to 344 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 39% to 34%.

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