MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a mid-sized elementary campus in MIAMI, Florida, MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 656 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 9% Black, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.2%, the actual is 47.8%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) records that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SECONDARY STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER 803, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 53.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 25%: 873 students in 2018 compared to 656 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.