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Enrollment
656
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000462
MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
17661 SW 117TH AVE, MIAMI, FL 33177 · (305) 238-3602 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL656 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
14.3:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
366 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 | 72 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 109 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (107).
Student demographics
22%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
54.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +11.9pp since 2023
Math
57.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +10.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.6% | 57.2% |
| 2023-24 | 42.7% | 46.9% |
% 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
47.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (47.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 656 | 55.8% | 47.8% |
| MANATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 728 | 55.8% | 41.2% |
| ORANGE RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 796 | 58.9% | 41.1% |
| PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 585 | 56.2% | 45.7% |
| TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 516 | 57.8% | 38.5% |
| MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 620 | 51.1% | 38.1% |
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 MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.8% | #1,444 of 2,136 | #203 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.2% | #1,228 of 2,149 ▲ 315 | #196 of 279 ▲ 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #1,078 of 2,149 ▲ 427 | #152 of 279 ▲ 43 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 656 | #847 of 2,267 | #83 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #413 of 2,077 | #35 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.1% | #1,941 of 2,108 | #137 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.8% | #1,050 of 2,188 | #135 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.9% | #332 of 1,374 | #74 of 185 |
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
656
+40 (+6%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 922
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 656 | 46 | 14.3:1 | 56% (366) |
| 2023-24 | 681 | 38 | 17.9:1 | 67% (454) |
| 2022-23 | 644 | 39 | 16.5:1 | 67% (429) |
| 2020-21 | 616 | 42 | 14.7:1 | 89% (546) |
| 2017-18 | 873 | 58 | 15.1:1 | 84% (732) |
| 2015-16 | 1,123 | 72 | 15.6:1 | 89% (998) |
| 2010-11 | 1,168 | 82 | 14.2:1 | 87% (1,017) |
| 2000-01 | 1,292 | 70 | 18.5:1 | 70% (902) |
| 1990-91 | 922 | 46 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a medium-sized elementary school, MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students in MIAMI, Florida. The school serves 656 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
In MIAMI-DADE, 527 schools enroll a combined 335,685 students.
The student body at MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 88% Hispanic. Other reported shares: 9% Black and 3% White. Miami-Dade County's residents are about 69% Hispanic, 19 points below the school's share. The school's diversity index is 22%, meaning two students picked at random have a 22% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 14.3:1. That is lower than the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. About 56% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 53.2% for MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The school posts 47.8%, 5.4 points below the prediction.
MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Miami-Dade County, where the median household income is $71,753, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Besides MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Miami-Dade County has 560 other public schools.
SECONDARY STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER 803 is the closest public school, about 0.7 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 656, a 6% increase from 616 in 2020-21.
Discussions about MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL may include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in MIAMI
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Nearby schools
- SECONDARY STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER 8030.7 mi · 50
- ROBERT MORGAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,780
- PINE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 335
- SOUTH MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY1.1 mi · 436
- MIAMI SOUTHRIDGE SENIOR HIGH1.2 mi · 2,238
- JOHNNIE M PARRIS COLONIAL DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 289
Frequently asked questions
About MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 656 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.3:1 (46 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 3% White, 88% Hispanic, 9% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
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