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MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in MIAMI, Florida, MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, operated by MIAMI-DADE. It caters to 620 students across grades pre-K through 5.
MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 5% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 55.5%; this one comes in at 38.1%, -17.5 points off the demographic line.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $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), MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 43.9%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 16%, going from 739 students in 2018 to 620 in 2025.
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