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Enrollment
536
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000473
NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
19340 NW 8TH CT, MIAMI, FL 33169 · (305) 652-6074 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL536 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% 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.
- C-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
15.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
357 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 | 47 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 66 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
33%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
45.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.9pp since 2023
Math
52.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +15.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.2% | 52.3% |
| 2023-24 | 39.3% | 36.9% |
% 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
41.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (41.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 536 | 66.6% | 41.4% |
| MORROW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH LAUDERDALE | 512 | 65.4% | 43.9% |
| OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 543 | 66.1% | 43.9% |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN K-8 CENTER NORTH MIAMI | 548 | 65.9% | 53.9% |
| PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 497 | 70.2% | 47.7% |
| ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH MIAMI | 450 | 65.1% | 53.4% |
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 NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.4% | #1,749 of 2,136 | #242 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #1,447 of 2,149 ▲ 473 | #224 of 279 ▲ 39 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.2% | #1,532 of 2,149 ▲ 134 | #211 of 279 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 536 | #1,274 of 2,267 | #129 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #831 of 2,077 | #84 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.0% | #1,794 of 2,108 | #98 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.6% | #609 of 2,188 | #74 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.7% | #339 of 1,374 | #75 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
536
-123 (-19%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 692
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 536 | 35 | 15.3:1 | 67% (357) |
| 2023-24 | 536 | 33 | 16.2:1 | 75% (400) |
| 2022-23 | 562 | 35 | 16.1:1 | 77% (435) |
| 2020-21 | 659 | 38 | 17.3:1 | 93% (613) |
| 2017-18 | 712 | 44 | 16.2:1 | 87% (616) |
| 2015-16 | 675 | 40 | 16.9:1 | 91% (616) |
| 2010-11 | 625 | 41 | 15.2:1 | 88% (548) |
| 2000-01 | 881 | 45 | 19.6:1 | 78% (685) |
| 1990-91 | 692 | 35 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
A mid-sized elementary school in MIAMI, Florida, NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of MIAMI-DADE. Its enrollment is 536 students, spread over pre-K through 5.
MIAMI-DADE has 527 schools; together they serve 335,685 students.
The largest group at NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Black students, at 80%. Enrollment also includes 18% Hispanic. Among people living in Miami-Dade County, the Black share is about 15%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 33%.
Teacher count: 35 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.3:1. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average ratio is 17.5:1. Roughly 67% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County is 19 points.
Among Florida public elementary schools, NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 17%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 41.4%, compared with a predicted 47.8%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Miami-Dade County show the median household earns about $71,753 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Miami-Dade County has 561 public schools.
MIAMI NORLAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles from NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 52.1% proficiency; NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 41.4%.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 536, compared with 659 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 17.3:1 to 15.3:1 over the same years.
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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
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Other schools in MIAMI
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Nearby schools
- MIAMI NORLAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,653
- NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 656
- PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 178
- NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 443
- HIBISCUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 339
- SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 472
Frequently asked questions
About NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 536 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 18% Hispanic, 80% Black, 1% Asian.
Who oversees NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by MIAMI-DADE in Miami-Dade County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.