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Enrollment
620
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000532
MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
650 W 33RD ST, HIALEAH, FL 33012 · (305) 822-4600 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL620 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 47% of Florida public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
15.1:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
392 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 | 38 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (116).
Student demographics
1%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
49.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.8pp since 2023
Math
67.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +11.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 67.2% |
| 2023-24 | 45.2% | 55.5% |
% 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
53.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (53.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 620 | 63.2% | 53.0% |
| NORTH TWIN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 590 | 64.6% | 53.3% |
| HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 700 | 61.7% | 40.4% |
| KINLOCH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 548 | 60.4% | 39.9% |
| JOHN G. DUPUIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 508 | 64.4% | 59.8% |
| MEADOWLANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 786 | 60.9% | 55.2% |
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 MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,180 of 2,136 | #173 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.2% | #765 of 2,149 ▲ 372 | #127 of 279 ▲ 46 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,346 of 2,149 ▲ 38 | #185 of 279 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 620 | #956 of 2,267 | #90 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #739 of 2,077 | #74 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 1.3% | #2,106 of 2,108 | #266 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.2% | #778 of 2,188 | #106 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.5% | #318 of 621 | #35 of 73 |
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
620
+97 (+19%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 915
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 620 | 41 | 15.1:1 | 63% (392) |
| 2023-24 | 613 | 41 | 14.9:1 | 69% (422) |
| 2022-23 | 611 | 37 | 16.5:1 | 70% (430) |
| 2020-21 | 523 | 37 | 14.1:1 | 88% (461) |
| 2017-18 | 556 | 36 | 15.4:1 | 87% (485) |
| 2015-16 | 566 | 35 | 16.2:1 | 91% (516) |
| 2010-11 | 800 | 55 | 14.6:1 | 91% (725) |
| 2000-01 | 939 | 52 | 18.1:1 | 84% (789) |
| 1990-91 | 915 | 46 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in MIAMI-DADE, located in HIALEAH, Florida. The school has 620 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5.
MIAMI-DADE has 335,685 students in 527 schools, and MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
Roughly 99% of students at MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic. Among people living in Miami-Dade County, the Hispanic share is about 69%. The diversity index for MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 1%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1. MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 63% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County.
Among Florida public elementary schools, MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 47%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 49.5%. It scores 53.0%, 3.5 points above that figure.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Miami-Dade County show that the median household earns about $71,753 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Across Miami-Dade County, 561 public schools serve about 335,817 students.
Among nearby public schools, HENRY H. FILER MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest at about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 5th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 19%, from 523 to 620.
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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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- JAMES H. BRIGHT ELEMENTARY/J.W. JOHNSON ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 452
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- MEADOWLANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 786
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Frequently asked questions
About MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 620 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.1:1 students per teacher at MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 99% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian.
Is MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.