Enrollment
349
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000472
NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1650 NE 141ST ST, NORTH MIAMI, FL 33181 · (305) 891-8649 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL349 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% 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
15.2:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
209 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 | 30 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
37%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
49.4%
FL avg 56.7% . -2.2pp since 2023
Math
57.8%
FL avg 58.9% . -3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.4% | 57.8% |
| 2023-24 | 51.7% | 61.2% |
% 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
55.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (55.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 349 | 59.9% | 55.3% |
| HIBISCUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 339 | 63.7% | 50.3% |
| WATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PEMBROKE PARK | 390 | 63.1% | 41.6% |
| BEACON COLLEGE PREP K-8 OPA LOCKA | 424 | 64.6% | 53.3% |
| LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 351 | 66.4% | 45.7% |
| GARDEN CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 390 | 63.1% | 40.5% |
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 NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.3% | #1,083 of 2,136 | #157 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.8% | #1,200 of 2,149 ▼ 306 | #194 of 279 ▼ 56 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #1,330 of 2,149 ▼ 242 | #183 of 279 ▼ 39 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 349 | #1,890 of 2,267 | #218 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #761 of 2,077 | #75 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.7% | #1,734 of 2,108 | #83 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.9% | #915 of 2,188 | #121 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -45.0% | #38 of 1,374 | #11 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
349
-123 (-26%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 683
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 349 | 23 | 15.2:1 | 60% (209) |
| 2023-24 | 362 | 24 | 15.1:1 | 70% (254) |
| 2022-23 | 386 | 30 | 12.9:1 | 79% (306) |
| 2020-21 | 472 | 35 | 13.5:1 | 92% (435) |
| 2017-18 | 634 | 49 | 12.9:1 | 83% (524) |
| 2015-16 | 746 | 52 | 14.3:1 | 93% (693) |
| 2010-11 | 621 | 36 | 17.3:1 | 87% (538) |
| 2000-01 | 943 | 68 | 13.9:1 | 91% (858) |
| 1990-91 | 683 | 32 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORTH MIAMI, Florida, is home to NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary school. The school counts 349 students across pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Florida is about 604 students.
MIAMI-DADE includes 527 schools. Together they enroll 335,685 students.
Roughly 77% of students at NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Black. Other groups make up 19% Hispanic and 3% White. County-wide, 15% of Miami-Dade County residents are Black. The school's diversity index is 37%, meaning two students picked at random have a 37% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 15.2 students for each one. This ratio sits 2.3 below the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. About 60% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. The average for public schools in Miami-Dade County is 48%.
allk12 grades NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a B-. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 55.3%; the prediction is 51.2%.
NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Miami-Dade County, where the median household income is $71,753, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Besides NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Miami-Dade County has 560 other public schools.
The shortest distance from NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.7 miles, to MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
NCES assigns NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 123 fewer students in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.5:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.2:1.
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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
Quick facts
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- NORTH MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 724 students
- MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 664 students
- W. J. BRYAN ELEMENTARYElementary · 611 students
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Other Natural Bridge Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Natural Bridge Elementary. NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Natural Bridge ElementaryNatural Bridge Station, VA · 230 students
Nearby schools
- MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 664
- MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 566
- MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 308
- W. J. BRYAN ELEMENTARY1.1 mi · 611
- ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 450
- NORTH MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 724
Frequently asked questions
About NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 349 students in grades PK-05.
Is NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 3% White, 19% Hispanic, 77% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by MIAMI-DADE in Miami-Dade County.
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