GOULDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 23555 SW 112TH AVE, in HOMESTEAD, Florida, GOULDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy K-5 school that works with 497 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by MIAMI-DADE.

GOULDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that enrolls 335,685 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GOULDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 48% Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, GOULDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting GOULDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GOULDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.7%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -13.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Miami-Dade County put the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), GOULDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GOULDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 5%: 472 students in 2018 compared to 497 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 30% to 48%.

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