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What's the one class at HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
995
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039002114
HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
9702 NW 130TH ST, HIALEAH GARDENS, FL 33018 · (305) 827-8830 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL995 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 77% 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.
- 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
12.9:1
77 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
506 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 | 80 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 130 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 156 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 171 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 170 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 157 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 131 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (130) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (131).
Student demographics
9%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
HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→HIALEAH GARDENS MIDDLE SCHOOL
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
59.1%
FL avg 56.7% . -4.6pp since 2023
Math
73.7%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 5 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 | 59.1% | 73.7% |
| 2023-24 | 63.7% | 74.0% |
% 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
65.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (65.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 995 | 50.9% | 65.6% |
| PINECREST GLADES ACADEMY MIAMI | 900 | 48.7% | 78.2% |
| SPANISH LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 1,138 | 48.9% | 60.0% |
| KENSINGTON PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 969 | 52.8% | 40.0% |
| WEST HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH GARDENS | 1,128 | 51.4% | 61.4% |
| RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 842 | 52.7% | 28.4% |
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 HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.6% | #624 of 2,136 | #91 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.7% | #496 of 2,149 ▼ 83 | #86 of 279 ▼ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.1% | #876 of 2,149 ▼ 290 | #130 of 279 ▼ 49 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 995 | #200 of 2,267 | #30 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #133 of 2,077 | #17 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.0% | #2,037 of 2,108 | #199 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.9% | #1,269 of 2,188 | #173 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.4% | #604 of 621 | #73 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
995
+62 (+7%) vs 2020
-39% since 2000-01, when it was 1,636
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 995 | 77 | 12.9:1 | 51% (506) |
| 2023-24 | 1,008 | 82 | 12.3:1 | 61% (617) |
| 2022-23 | 1,010 | 78 | 12.9:1 | 64% (645) |
| 2020-21 | 933 | 82 | 11.4:1 | 83% (774) |
| 2017-18 | 991 | 78 | 12.7:1 | 74% (738) |
| 2015-16 | 917 | 78 | 11.8:1 | 83% (763) |
| 2010-11 | 969 | 77 | 12.6:1 | 79% (769) |
| 2000-01 | 1,636 | 87 | 18.8:1 | 71% (1,157) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a large elementary school with an address in HIALEAH GARDENS, Florida. It has an enrollment of 995 students in pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
MIAMI-DADE has a total of 527 schools and 335,685 students, HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
Of every 100 students at HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 95 are Hispanic. It is also 2% White. For comparison, the population of Miami-Dade County is roughly 69% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 9, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.9:1. Elementary schools in Florida have an average ratio of 17.5:1. On the income side, 51% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County.
Among Florida public elementary schools, HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 77%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 65.6%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 55.7%.
The county, Miami-Dade County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $71,753, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The county has 561 public schools and about 335,817 students.
HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is LINCOLN-MARTI CHARTER SCHOOL (HIALEAH CAMPUS), about 0.5 miles away. Within five miles of HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 65.6% is above the 61.2% average for nearby schools.
Federal data place HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 7%, from 933 to 995. Students per teacher increased from 11.4 in 2020-21 to 12.9 in 2024-25.
HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
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
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- 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 HIALEAH GARDENS
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- MATER ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,611 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,551 students
- MATER ACADEMYElementary · 1,521 students
- MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,219 students
- WEST HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,128 students
Nearby schools
- LINCOLN-MARTI CHARTER SCHOOL (HIALEAH CAMPUS)0.5 mi · 171
- ERNEST R. GRAHAM K-8 ACADEMY0.5 mi · 947
- WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.6 mi · 594
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 3,009
- WEST HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,128
- HIALEAH GARDENS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,551
Frequently asked questions
About HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 995 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 95% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian.
Is HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.