JESSE J. MCCRARY JR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in MIAMI, Florida, JESSE J. MCCRARY JR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a close-knit primary school, operated by MIAMI-DADE. It caters to 382 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so JESSE J. MCCRARY JR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 37% leaner than that benchmark.

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

On demographics, JESSE J. MCCRARY JR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 59%. Other groups include 40% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JESSE J. MCCRARY JR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 38.1%, a residual of -10.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) reports that median household income runs about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which JESSE J. MCCRARY JR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

ARCOLA LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JESSE J. MCCRARY JR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JESSE J. MCCRARY JR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.8%.

JESSE J. MCCRARY JR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JESSE J. MCCRARY JR. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 30%, going from 547 students in 2018 to 382 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 78% to 59% over that span.

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