LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment K-5 school in HOMESTEAD, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE. The school hosts 498 students in grades pre-K through 5.

LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that caters to 335,685 students overall.

Looking at the student body, LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 48% Black. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

After controlling for student poverty, LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.8%, the actual is 35.2%, a residual of -12.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 598 (now 498). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 57% to 48%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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