LIBERTY CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 26 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LIBERTY CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in MIAMI, Florida, LIBERTY CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a modestly sized primary school, run under MIAMI-DADE. It hosts 299 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so LIBERTY CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 50% below that benchmark.
MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; LIBERTY CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.
In terms of who attends, LIBERTY CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 64% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 36% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 15% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting LIBERTY CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LIBERTY CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 44.5%, a residual of -3.8 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LIBERTY CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).
Nearest neighbor: SECONDARY STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER-804, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LIBERTY CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 30%: 426 students in 2018 compared to 299 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 9% to 36% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.
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