HOWARD DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

HOWARD DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a tight-knit elementary campus in MIAMI, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 341 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), HOWARD DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, HOWARD DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 18% White, 14% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, HOWARD DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HOWARD DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.6%, the actual is 63.8%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) records that median household income runs about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HOWARD DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

PALMETTO MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HOWARD DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 77.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 41%: 582 students in 2018 compared to 341 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 65% across the same window.

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