HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a close-knit elementary-level community in MIAMI, Florida, overseen by MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 395 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 35% below that benchmark.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%); the rest looks like 17% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 15% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household income runs about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is MIAMI NORTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 22%, going from 509 students in 2018 to 395 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 9% to 17% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

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