Enrollment
353
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000368
LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY
4700 NW 12TH AVE, MIAMI, FL 33127 · (305) 635-0873 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL353 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Florida public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
16.1:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
233 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 33 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 42 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 38% smaller than its 5th grade class (68).
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
LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY→GEORGIA JONES AYERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
32.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.6pp since 2023
Math
36.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.5% | 36.2% |
| 2023-24 | 24.9% | 32.1% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
31.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY
LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY's state test result (31.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY this school | 353 | 66.0% | 31.6% |
| DR. FREDERICA S. WILSON/SKYWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI GARDENS | 336 | 67.9% | 58.3% |
| DR. HENRY W. MACK/WEST LITTLE RIVER K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 383 | 64.0% | 47.2% |
| PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 373 | 67.6% | 33.3% |
| PINE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 335 | 69.9% | 51.4% |
| EARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 371 | 69.3% | 54.3% |
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 LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #2,046 of 2,136 | #274 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.2% | #2,016 of 2,149 ▲ 18 | #274 of 279 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.5% | #2,012 of 2,149 ▲ 85 | #264 of 279 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 353 | #1,881 of 2,267 | #215 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #1,134 of 2,077 | #123 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.9% | #1,281 of 2,108 | #25 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.0% | #639 of 2,188 | #80 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.1% | #570 of 1,374 | #108 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
353
-37 (-9%) vs 2020
-58% since 1990-91, when it was 844
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 353 | 22 | 16.1:1 | 66% (233) |
| 2023-24 | 328 | 23 | 14.3:1 | 68% (222) |
| 2022-23 | 344 | 23 | 15.0:1 | 76% (261) |
| 2020-21 | 390 | 29 | 13.4:1 | 97% (377) |
| 2017-18 | 431 | 27 | 16.0:1 | 88% (379) |
| 2015-16 | 407 | 27 | 15.1:1 | 98% (398) |
| 2010-11 | 507 | 36 | 14.1:1 | 97% (491) |
| 2000-01 | 564 | 40 | 14.1:1 | 99% (558) |
| 1990-91 | 844 | 41 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY.
About LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY
LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY is the name of a small elementary school in MIAMI, Florida. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 353 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Florida) has about 604 students.
MIAMI-DADE is the district for LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY. It has 527 schools and 335,685 students.
Federal enrollment data show Hispanic students as the largest group at LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY, at 50%. Other groups include 48% Black. By comparison, Miami-Dade County residents are about 69% Hispanic. LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY's diversity index is 52%, against a US figure of 70%.
LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY operates with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 16.1:1. On average, elementary schools in Florida have 17.5:1, compared with 16.1:1 here. LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY reports 66% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County is 18 points.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BeatsExpectations places LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY in the bottom 10% of Florida schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 16.5 points below it (31.6% actual, 48.1% predicted).
Recent Census Bureau figures for Miami-Dade County show that 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%. Besides LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY, Miami-Dade County has 560 other public schools.
GEORGIA JONES AYERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is located about 0.1 miles from LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY is 8th of 8 on proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.
LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY's enrollment declined from 390 in 2020-21 to 353 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 16.1:1, from 13.4:1.
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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
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- 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
- GEORGIA JONES AYERS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 448
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS0.6 mi · 36
- ORCHARD VILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 283
- MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,213
- KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 294
- MATER ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES0.9 mi · 465
Frequently asked questions
About LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY?
LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 353 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY serve?
LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY have?
LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY?
At LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 1% White, 50% Hispanic, 48% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY in?
LENORA BRAYNON SMITH ELEMENTARY is part of MIAMI-DADE.
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