Enrollment
310
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000540
NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
14120 NW 24TH AVE, OPA LOCKA, FL 33054 · (305) 685-7204 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL310 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of Florida public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
18.2:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
226 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 58 | 19% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (37).
Student demographics
36%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
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
50.4%
FL avg 56.7% . -4.9pp since 2023
Math
59.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.4% | 59.6% |
| 2023-24 | 55.3% | 54.7% |
% 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
53.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (53.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 310 | 72.9% | 53.0% |
| NORTH COUNTY K-8 CENTER MIAMI GARDENS | 319 | 71.8% | 49.7% |
| BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI GARDENS | 330 | 71.8% | 44.4% |
| MARY M BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 319 | 71.2% | 45.8% |
| LILLIE C. EVANS K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 269 | 73.2% | 47.0% |
| ORANGE CENTER ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 342 | 76.9% | 46.5% |
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 NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,181 of 2,136 | #174 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.6% | #1,112 of 2,149 ▲ 54 | #180 of 279 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.4% | #1,281 of 2,149 ▼ 359 | #179 of 279 ▼ 52 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 310 | #1,971 of 2,267 | #237 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.2:1 | #1,737 of 2,077 | #214 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.9% | #1,748 of 2,108 | #88 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.9% | #350 of 2,188 | #38 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #672 of 1,374 | #123 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
310
+10 (+3%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 572
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
was 20.0:1
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 | 310 | 17 | 18.2:1 | 73% (226) |
| 2023-24 | 343 | 18 | 19.1:1 | 76% (259) |
| 2022-23 | 343 | 19 | 18.1:1 | 89% (305) |
| 2020-21 | 300 | 15 | 20.0:1 | 99% (297) |
| 2017-18 | 369 | 20 | 18.4:1 | 94% (347) |
| 2015-16 | 385 | 22 | 17.5:1 | 99% (383) |
| 2010-11 | 347 | 24 | 14.5:1 | 95% (331) |
| 2000-01 | 563 | 29 | 19.4:1 | 98% (552) |
| 1990-91 | 572 | 28 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, located in OPA LOCKA, Florida, is a small elementary school. In all, 310 students attend the school in pre-K through 5. That is 49% below the average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
MIAMI-DADE has 335,685 students in 527 schools, and NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The share of Black students at NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 77%, a majority. The school is also 22% Hispanic. That is higher than the 15% Black share among all Miami-Dade County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 36%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.2:1. The school has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is 0.8 students per teacher. In all, 73% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County is 25 points.
NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 57% of Florida public elementary schools.
NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 53.0% and a predicted 44.6%.
For Miami-Dade County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $71,753, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. There are 561 public schools in the county, enrolling about 335,817, NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
DR. ROBERT B. INGRAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits about 0.5 miles from NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 3rd of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 3%, from 300 to 310. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 20.0:1 to 18.2:1.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 310 students in grades PK-05.
Is NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 18.2:1 students per teacher at NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 22% Hispanic, 77% Black.
What district is NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
NATHAN B. YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of MIAMI-DADE.
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