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Enrollment
544
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000431
GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
20900 SW 97TH AVE, CUTLER BAY, FL 33189 · (305) 235-6811 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL544 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% of Florida public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
333 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 62 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→CUTLER BAY MIDDLE
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
50.5%
FL avg 56.7% . -1.8pp since 2023
Math
60.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.5% | 60.7% |
| 2023-24 | 52.3% | 56.5% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (57.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 544 | 61.2% | 57.4% |
| MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 564 | 61.0% | 55.4% |
| MEADOW WOODS ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 571 | 59.4% | 49.5% |
| CENTRAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 529 | 63.5% | 27.2% |
| PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 589 | 60.6% | 52.9% |
| MIKE DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 655 | 62.4% | 51.5% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.4% | #975 of 2,136 | #147 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.7% | #1,069 of 2,149 ▲ 28 | #170 of 279 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #1,275 of 2,149 ▼ 220 | #178 of 279 ▼ 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 544 | #1,254 of 2,267 | #126 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #17 of 2,077 | #4 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.0% | #1,546 of 2,108 | #60 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.2% | #859 of 2,188 | #113 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.2% | #377 of 1,374 | #82 of 185 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
544
-49 (-8%) vs 2020
-47% since 1990-91, when it was 1,017
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 9.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 544 | 49 | 11.1:1 | 61% (333) |
| 2023-24 | 618 | 54 | 11.4:1 | 68% (421) |
| 2022-23 | 603 | 54 | 11.2:1 | 71% (427) |
| 2020-21 | 593 | 62 | 9.6:1 | 85% (502) |
| 2017-18 | 708 | 66 | 10.7:1 | 82% (584) |
| 2015-16 | 708 | 68 | 10.4:1 | 84% (592) |
| 2010-11 | 704 | 70 | 10.1:1 | 79% (558) |
| 2000-01 | 761 | 68 | 11.2:1 | 77% (588) |
| 1990-91 | 1,017 | 74 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in CUTLER BAY, Florida, and is classified as an elementary school. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 544 students.
The district, MIAMI-DADE, operates 527 schools serving 335,685 students.
The student body at GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 70% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 23% Black and 5% White. Among Miami-Dade County residents, the Hispanic share is about 69%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 45%.
The school has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 11.1 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Florida have an average ratio of 17.5:1. The school reported 61% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That rate is above the 48% average among public schools in Miami-Dade County.
GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 61% of Florida public elementary schools.
GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 57.4% is 7.0 points above the 50.5% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The county, Miami-Dade County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $71,753 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Miami-Dade County has 561 public schools.
About 0.5 miles separate GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL from the closest public school, CUTLER RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The five-mile area around GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 57.4% against a local average of 62.4%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 544, from 593 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 11.1 students per teacher, compared with 9.6 in 2020-21.
GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Miami-Dade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,738,356
Census ACS
Median income
$71,753
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
561
335,817 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
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- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in CUTLER BAY
- CUTLER BAY MIDDLEMiddle · 935 students
- MATER ACADEMY BAY ELEMENTARYElementary · 917 students
- DR. EDWARD L. WHIGHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 731 students
- CUTLER BAY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 590 students
- CORAL REEF MONTESSORI ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 521 students
- MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 518 students
Nearby schools
- CUTLER RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 430
- CUTLER BAY MIDDLE1.0 mi · 935
- CORAL REEF MONTESSORI ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL1.1 mi · 521
- CUTLER BAY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 590
- BEL-AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 324
- DR. EDWARD L. WHIGHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 731
Frequently asked questions
About GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 544 students in grades PK-05.
Is GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 11.1:1 (49 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 5% White, 70% Hispanic, 23% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.