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What's one thing KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
693
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000441
KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
8000 SW 142ND AVE, MIAMI, FL 33183 · (305) 385-2575 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL693 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% of Florida public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
14.4:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
337 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 | 79 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 98 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 104 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 103 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (103).
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
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
72.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
79.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.9% | 79.6% |
| 2023-24 | 62.9% | 75.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% 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 15 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (71.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 693 | 48.6% | 71.4% |
| AUBURNDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 779 | 51.0% | 42.1% |
| CHARLES R HADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 595 | 48.6% | 55.5% |
| ACADEMIR CHARTER SCHOOL WEST MIAMI | 695 | 45.2% | 80.7% |
| MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 620 | 51.1% | 38.1% |
| REDONDO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOMESTEAD | 569 | 50.6% | 52.3% |
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 KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.4% | #406 of 2,136 | #61 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.6% | #295 of 2,149 ▲ 86 | #52 of 279 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.9% | #344 of 2,149 ▲ 261 | #58 of 279 ▲ 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 693 | #727 of 2,267 | #78 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #477 of 2,077 | #42 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.9% | #2,038 of 2,108 | #200 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.6% | #1,338 of 2,188 | #187 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.7% | #808 of 1,374 | #141 of 185 |
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
693
+34 (+5%) vs 2020
-53% since 1990-91, when it was 1,481
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 693 | 48 | 14.4:1 | 49% (337) |
| 2023-24 | 692 | 45 | 15.4:1 | 55% (379) |
| 2022-23 | 693 | 47 | 14.7:1 | 58% (401) |
| 2020-21 | 659 | 48 | 13.7:1 | 78% (514) |
| 2017-18 | 794 | 55 | 14.4:1 | 71% (567) |
| 2015-16 | 777 | 53 | 14.7:1 | 79% (612) |
| 2010-11 | 753 | 58 | 13.0:1 | 71% (533) |
| 2000-01 | 1,162 | 77 | 15.1:1 | 49% (569) |
| 1990-91 | 1,481 | 79 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in MIAMI, Florida, and is classified as an elementary school. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 693 students.
MIAMI-DADE enrolls 335,685 students, and its 527 schools include KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 95% Hispanic by enrollment. Next come 3% White. That compares with about 69% Hispanic among all Miami-Dade County residents. The diversity index for KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 9%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 48 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 14.4:1. The gap from the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is 3.0 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 49%. The average for public schools in Miami-Dade County is similar, at 48%.
On the allk12 Grade, KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 87% of Florida public elementary schools.
KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outperforms its prediction by 14.6 points. The model expects 56.8% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Florida; the school's rate is 71.4%.
In the wider Miami-Dade County area, median household income comes to about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools enroll about 335,817 students and include KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
PINECREST ACADEMY (SOUTH CAMPUS) is about 0.7 miles from KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on proficiency.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 659 to 693, a 5% gain.
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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
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Other schools in MIAMI
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Nearby schools
- PINECREST ACADEMY (SOUTH CAMPUS)0.7 mi · 733
- OLIVER HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 617
- CLAUDE PEPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 417
- WINSTON PARK K-8 CENTER1.2 mi · 1,067
- DANTE B. FASCELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 403
- CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 695
Frequently asked questions
About KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 693 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 48 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
How diverse is KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 3% White, 95% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
KENDALE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.