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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this year?
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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
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
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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.
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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
656
-217 (-25%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 15.1:1
% White
3%
was 2%
% Hispanic
88%
was 86%
% Black
9%
was 11%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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.
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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.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.