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JOELLA C. GOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% 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 18 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JOELLA C. GOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JOELLA C. GOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a well-populated elementary campus in HIALEAH, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 941 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 56% above the state mean of about 604.
Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), JOELLA C. GOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, JOELLA C. GOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 12% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JOELLA C. GOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JOELLA C. GOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 54.9%; this one delivers 72.6%, a residual of +17.7 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Miami-Dade County put median household income runs about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), JOELLA C. GOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
AMERICAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOELLA C. GOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOELLA C. GOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.4%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 1,015 students in 2018 compared to 941 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 71% to 85% over that span.
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