MEADOWLANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a mid-tier K-5 school in HIALEAH, Florida, MEADOWLANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 786 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under MIAMI-DADE. That puts it 30% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

MEADOWLANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that teaches 335,685 students overall.

On the student-mix side, MEADOWLANE 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 noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 42 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 MEADOWLANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

After controlling for student poverty, MEADOWLANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 55.2%, a residual of +4.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Miami-Dade County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), MEADOWLANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MAE M. WALTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MEADOWLANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.9%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. MEADOWLANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 780 (now 786). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.

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