MADIE IVES K-8 PREPARATORY ACADEMY

MADIE IVES K-8 PREPARATORY ACADEMY, a roomy elementary campus in NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE, teaches 1,083 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 79% above the state mean of about 604.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), MADIE IVES K-8 PREPARATORY ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, MADIE IVES K-8 PREPARATORY ACADEMY reports that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 2% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, MADIE IVES K-8 PREPARATORY ACADEMY has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, MADIE IVES K-8 PREPARATORY ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 57.1%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MADIE IVES K-8 PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

IPREP ACADEMY NORTH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MADIE IVES K-8 PREPARATORY ACADEMY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. MADIE IVES K-8 PREPARATORY ACADEMY's enrollment has grew 49% since 2018, when it stood at 728 (now 1,083). Class-load math has grew: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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