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GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in MIAMI, Florida, GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a tight-knit elementary-level community, overseen by MIAMI-DADE. It educates 443 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.
GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that hosts 335,685 students overall.
Looking at the student body, GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 77%; the rest breaks down as 20% Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 68% of students at GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.2%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of +2.3 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) records that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, 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), GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is HUBERT O. SIBLEY K-8 ACADEMY, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 51.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 18%, going from 543 students in 2018 to 443 in 2025.
On the community side, members of the GRATIGNY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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