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What's something MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
1,196
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000463
MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER
14250 NW 67TH AVE, HIALEAH, FL 33014 · (305) 822-7757 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,196 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of Florida public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
18.7:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
497 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 | 20 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 91 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 112 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 124 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 127 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 151 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 137 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 134 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 138 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 162 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is 44% smaller than its 8th grade class (162).
Student demographics
14%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER→HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
69.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.7pp since 2023
Math
69.4%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.2% | 69.4% |
| 2023-24 | 64.5% | 70.2% |
% 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
65.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 LAKES K-8 CENTER
MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER's state test result (65.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER this school | 1,196 | 41.6% | 65.9% |
| BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTER MIAMI LAKES | 1,404 | 40.5% | 70.2% |
| CORAL WAY K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 1,038 | 39.7% | 63.2% |
| WINSTON PARK K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 1,067 | 45.2% | 72.1% |
| PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 1,422 | 45.3% | 63.9% |
| NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 996 | 41.5% | 76.8% |
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 LAKES K-8 CENTER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.9% | #606 of 2,136 | #89 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.4% | #674 of 2,149 ▼ 140 | #115 of 279 ▼ 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.2% | #467 of 2,149 ▲ 79 | #78 of 279 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,196 | #86 of 2,267 | #12 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #1,790 of 2,077 | #222 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.9% | #2,001 of 2,108 | #172 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.6% | #1,540 of 2,188 | #209 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.5% | #1,105 of 1,374 | #166 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
1,196
+41 (+4%) vs 2020
+69% since 1990-91, when it was 706
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 1,196 | 64 | 18.7:1 | 42% (497) |
| 2023-24 | 1,223 | 63 | 19.4:1 | 48% (589) |
| 2022-23 | 1,159 | 60 | 19.3:1 | 48% (560) |
| 2020-21 | 1,155 | 69 | 16.7:1 | 60% (688) |
| 2017-18 | 1,279 | 80 | 16.0:1 | 54% (696) |
| 2015-16 | 1,363 | 77 | 17.7:1 | 55% (753) |
| 2010-11 | 1,560 | 95 | 16.4:1 | 46% (713) |
| 2000-01 | 996 | 50 | 19.9:1 | 24% (244) |
| 1990-91 | 706 | 38 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER.
About MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER
MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER is a large elementary school in HIALEAH, Florida, administered by MIAMI-DADE. The school serves pre-K through 8. Enrollment is 1,196 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Florida enroll about 604 students on average.
MIAMI-DADE counts 335,685 students in its 527 schools, and MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER is one of them.
Hispanic students are 93% of those enrolled at MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER. Beyond that, enrollment is 4% Black and 3% White. In Miami-Dade County overall, about 69% of residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 14% means there is a 14% chance two randomly chosen students at MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER are from different groups.
On staff are 64 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 18.7:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 42%.
MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 69% of Florida public elementary schools.
MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER sits between the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 65.9% and a predicted 60.4%.
American Community Survey estimates for Miami-Dade County show that median household income comes to about $71,753, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Miami-Dade County counts 561 public schools with about 335,817 students.
HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH is about 0.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER is 3rd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
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.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 1,196, from 1,155 in 2020-21. The school's ratio increased from 16.7:1 to 18.7:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 HIALEAH
- HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- AMERICAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,582 students
- PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,422 students
- HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,367 students
- MATER ACADEMY LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,201 students
- WESTLAND HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,191 students
Nearby schools
- HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH0.5 mi · 1,367
- PALM LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 574
- MIAMI LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 987
- NORTH TWIN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 590
- YOUTH CO-OP PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 240
- YOUTH CO-OP CHARTER SCHOOL1.2 mi · 761
Frequently asked questions
About MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTERHow many students attend MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER?
MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER enrolls approximately 1,196 students in grades PK-08.
Is MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER an elementary, middle, or high school?
MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER have?
MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER employs 64 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.7:1.
What is the student diversity at MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER?
Student demographics at MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER are roughly 3% White, 93% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER in?
MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER is part of MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.