KENSINGTON PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a big elementary-level community in MIAMI, Florida, KENSINGTON PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 969 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of MIAMI-DADE. Enrollment runs roughly 60% larger than the state mean of about 604.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, KENSINGTON PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, KENSINGTON PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, KENSINGTON PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 54.7%; KENSINGTON PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 40.0%, -14.7 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 KENSINGTON PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is GREEN SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KENSINGTON PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 1,064 students in 2018 compared to 969 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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