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FRANK CRAWFORD MARTIN K-8 CENTER
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About FRANK CRAWFORD MARTIN K-8 CENTER
Set in MIAMI, Florida, FRANK CRAWFORD MARTIN K-8 CENTER is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, operated by MIAMI-DADE. It serves 611 students across grades pre-K through 8.
Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), FRANK CRAWFORD MARTIN K-8 CENTER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, FRANK CRAWFORD MARTIN K-8 CENTER records that the largest single group is Black, at 74% of enrollment; the rest reads as 22% 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, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, FRANK CRAWFORD MARTIN K-8 CENTER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.8%; this one delivers 61.6%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household income runs about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), FRANK CRAWFORD MARTIN K-8 CENTER is one campus in the mix.
GLORIA FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FRANK CRAWFORD MARTIN K-8 CENTER comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 63.3%.
FRANK CRAWFORD MARTIN K-8 CENTER operates from a bedroom-community location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 46%: 1,127 students in 2018 compared to 611 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 60% to 74% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.
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