NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a tight-knit primary school in NORTH MIAMI, Florida, overseen by MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 349 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 42% smaller than the state mean of about 604.

MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 77% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 19% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.2%; this one delivers 55.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) shows that median household income runs about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 57.9%.

NATURAL BRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 45%: 634 students in 2018 compared to 349 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 83% to 77% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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