MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in HIALEAH, Florida, MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary-level community, overseen by MIAMI-DADE. It enrolls 620 students across grades pre-K through 5.

MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that works with 335,685 students overall.

Demographically, MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.5%; this one delivers 53.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Miami-Dade County put median household income runs about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HENRY H. FILER MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 12%: 556 students in 2018 compared to 620 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.