Enrollment
373
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000534
HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL
5300 CARILLO ST, CORAL GABLES, FL 33146 · (305) 661-7661 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL373 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Florida public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
14.3:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
47 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 39 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 29 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 32 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 22% larger than its 8th grade class (32).
Student demographics
54%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
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
95.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.8pp since 2023
Math
93.5%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 95 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 95.1% | 93.5% |
| 2023-24 | 93.3% | 93.5% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
94.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 94% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 75% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL
HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL's state test result (94.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL this school | 373 | 12.6% | 94.1% |
| THE READING EDGE ACADEMY DEBARY | 328 | 8.8% | 48.8% |
| TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT PINECREST PINECREST | 278 | 11.2% | 93.8% |
| GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORAL GABLES | 563 | 16.5% | 89.9% |
| DAVID FAIRCHILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 473 | 18.6% | 77.4% |
| COCONUT GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COCONUT GROVE | 547 | 11.5% | 81.2% |
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 HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 94.1% | #3 of 2,136 | #1 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 93.5% | #18 of 2,149 ▼ 2 | #10 of 279 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 95.1% | #3 of 2,149 no change | #1 of 279 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 373 | #1,833 of 2,267 | #206 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #443 of 2,077 | #40 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.7% | #1,191 of 2,108 | #12 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.6% | #2,091 of 2,188 | #268 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.7% | #427 of 621 | #46 of 73 |
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
373
-25 (-6%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 392
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 373 | 26 | 14.3:1 | 13% (47) |
| 2023-24 | 357 | 23 | 15.5:1 | 19% (68) |
| 2022-23 | 392 | 26 | 15.1:1 | 20% (80) |
| 2020-21 | 398 | 26 | 15.3:1 | 32% (126) |
| 2017-18 | 353 | 23 | 15.3:1 | 24% (83) |
| 2015-16 | 314 | 19 | 16.5:1 | 22% (69) |
| 2010-11 | 238 | 18 | 13.2:1 | 18% (43) |
| 2000-01 | 380 | 24 | 15.8:1 | 17% (63) |
| 1990-91 | 392 | 23 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL.
About HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL
In CORAL GABLES, Florida, part of Miami-Dade County, HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL is an elementary school. The school covers kindergarten through 8 and reported 373 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Florida enroll around 604, and this school is 38% below that mark.
MIAMI-DADE has 335,685 students spread across 527 schools.
Hispanic students are 64% of those enrolled at HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL. Other reported shares: 23% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. A diversity index of 54% means there is a 54% chance two randomly chosen students at HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL are from different groups.
HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1, with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 13% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Miami-Dade County is 48%.
On the allk12 Grade, HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL lands at A+, ahead of 99% of Florida public elementary schools.
HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL outperforms its prediction by 19.2 points. The model expects 74.9% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Florida; the school's rate is 94.1%.
In the wider Miami-Dade County area, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Across Miami-Dade County, 561 public schools serve about 335,817 students.
HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL ranks 1st on average proficiency.
HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 373 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 398.
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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
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- CORAL GABLES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,894 students
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 941 students
- CORAL GABLES PREPARATORY ACADEMYElementary · 812 students
- PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 778 students
- GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 563 students
- SOMERSET GABLES ACADEMYElementary · 556 students
Nearby schools
- PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 778
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 941
- GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 563
- DAVID FAIRCHILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 473
- CORAL GABLES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 2,894
- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY1.2 mi · 375
Frequently asked questions
About HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOLHow many students attend HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL?
HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 373 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL serve?
HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL.
How diverse is HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL?
HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL reports a student body of 23% White, 64% Hispanic, 7% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL?
HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL is overseen by MIAMI-DADE in Miami-Dade County.
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