MIAMI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in MIAMI SHORES, Florida, MIAMI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary campus, run under MIAMI-DADE. It enrolls 610 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), MIAMI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, MIAMI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 38% Hispanic, 8% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, MIAMI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.6%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household income runs about $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. MIAMI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

The closest other public school is PHYLLIS R. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MIAMI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MIAMI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. MIAMI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 710 (now 610). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 27% to 38%. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.