MIAMI BEACH SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in MIAMI BEACH, Florida, MIAMI BEACH SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a close-knit elementary-level community, overseen by MIAMI-DADE. It caters to 462 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 24% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, MIAMI BEACH SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MIAMI BEACH SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%. Other groups include 35% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully less Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MIAMI BEACH SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.1%, the actual is 68.3%, a residual of +4.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate 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), MIAMI BEACH SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MIAMI BEACH FEINBERG/FISHER K-8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MIAMI BEACH SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 70.6%.

MIAMI BEACH SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MIAMI BEACH SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 21%, going from 586 students in 2018 to 462 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 41% to 35% over that span.

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