LAKE STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LAKE STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a compact primary school in MIAMI GARDENS, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE. The school educates 255 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 58% below the state mean of about 604.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, LAKE STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 54% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 45% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably less Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at LAKE STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAKE STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.4%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Miami-Dade County put median household earnings sit near $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. LAKE STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

Nearest neighbor: LAKE STEVENS MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LAKE STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.5%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKE STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 8%, going from 276 students in 2018 to 255 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 47% to 54% across the same window.

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