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Enrollment
498
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000452
LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
505 SW 8TH ST, HOMESTEAD, FL 33030 · (305) 247-3933 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL498 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
332 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 | 5 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
52%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
24.3%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.6pp since 2023
Math
45.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.3% | 45.7% |
| 2023-24 | 26.9% | 37.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
35.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 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 LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (35.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 498 | 66.7% | 35.2% |
| GOULDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOMESTEAD | 497 | 70.8% | 32.5% |
| ROBERT C. MARKHAM ELEMENTARY POMPANO BEACH | 523 | 61.8% | 38.1% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY THE DR. BERNARD KIMMEL CAMPUS LAKE WORTH | 515 | 66.4% | 41.3% |
| ARCOLA LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 601 | 67.7% | 52.7% |
| WHITE CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT PIERCE | 493 | 67.3% | 47.4% |
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 LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.2% | #1,974 of 2,136 | #266 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #1,739 of 2,149 ▲ 158 | #250 of 279 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.3% | #2,126 of 2,149 ▼ 52 | #275 of 279 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 498 | #1,431 of 2,267 | #149 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #1,300 of 2,077 | #143 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.7% | #1,289 of 2,108 | #28 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.7% | #600 of 2,188 | #73 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.7% | #627 of 1,374 | #114 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
498
-27 (-5%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 612
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 498 | 30 | 16.6:1 | 67% (332) |
| 2023-24 | 494 | 26 | 19.0:1 | 72% (357) |
| 2022-23 | 477 | 30 | 15.9:1 | 80% (380) |
| 2020-21 | 525 | 37 | 14.2:1 | 97% (508) |
| 2017-18 | 598 | 42 | 14.2:1 | 94% (564) |
| 2015-16 | 692 | 47 | 14.7:1 | 99% (686) |
| 2010-11 | 797 | 57 | 14.0:1 | 99% (791) |
| 2000-01 | 1,033 | 61 | 16.9:1 | 99% (1,025) |
| 1990-91 | 612 | 34 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school for students in HOMESTEAD, Florida. It enrolled 498 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
MIAMI-DADE serves 335,685 students across 527 schools.
Hispanic students make up a majority at LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at 50%. The remaining students are 48% Black. Census figures show Miami-Dade County is about 69% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.6:1. On average, elementary schools in Florida have 17.5:1, compared with 16.6:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 67%. That rate is above the 48% average among public schools in Miami-Dade County.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 47.8%. LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 35.2%.
Within Miami-Dade County, the median household income is $71,753, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County has 561 public schools and roughly 335,817 students.
The school nearest to LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD, at a distance of about 0.6 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th of 7 on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 5% from 2020-21, when LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had 525 students, to 2024-25, when it had 498. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 14.2:1 to 16.6:1.
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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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- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in HOMESTEAD
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- HOMESTEAD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,323 students
- KEYS GATE CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 1,950 students
- SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMSElementary · 1,890 students
- SOUTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,304 students
- GATEWAY ENVIRONMENTAL K-8 LEARNING CENTERElementary · 1,165 students
Nearby schools
- SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD0.6 mi · 551
- LINCOLN-MARTI SCHOOLS (INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS)0.7 mi · 210
- CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS)0.7 mi · 48
- Acceleration Academies Llc Homestead0.7 mi · 170
- WEST HOMESTEAD K-8 CENTER0.7 mi · 864
- FLORIDA CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 535
Frequently asked questions
About LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 498 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 16.6:1 students per teacher at LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 1% White, 50% Hispanic, 48% Black, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by MIAMI-DADE in Miami-Dade County.
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