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GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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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 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in CUTLER BAY, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE, works with 544 students in grades pre-K through 5.
GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that works with 335,685 students overall.
Looking at the student body, GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. Other groups include 23% Black, 5% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 61% of students at GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 57.4%, a residual of +7.0 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).
The closest other public school is CUTLER RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 63.8%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Over the past 7-year window. GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 708 (now 544). Hispanic enrollment moved from 66% to 70% across the same window.
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