GOLDEN GLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GOLDEN GLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the micro-enrollment elementary-level communitys in OPA LOCKA, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE, with 210 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 65% below the state mean of about 604.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, GOLDEN GLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, GOLDEN GLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 17% Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, GOLDEN GLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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, GOLDEN GLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) logs that 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%. GOLDEN GLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

Nearest neighbor: BUNCHE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GOLDEN GLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GOLDEN GLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 52.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. GOLDEN GLADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 228 (now 210). Black enrollment moved from 93% to 81% across the same window.

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