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Enrollment
996
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039006302
NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
15950 SW 144TH ST, MIAMI, FL 33196 · (305) 254-5200 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL996 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of Florida public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
15.8:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
413 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 | 57 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 120 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 155 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 155 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 169 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 175 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 165 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (120) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (165).
Student demographics
14%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→JORGE MAS CANOSA MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
70.7%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
84.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.7% | 84.7% |
| 2023-24 | 69.6% | 78.8% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
76.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (76.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 996 | 41.5% | 76.8% |
| MIAMI BEACH FEINBERG/FISHER K-8 MIAMI BEACH | 851 | 40.9% | 46.4% |
| JACK DAVID GORDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 805 | 42.0% | 72.5% |
| CORAL WAY K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 1,038 | 39.7% | 63.2% |
| WINSTON PARK K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 1,067 | 45.2% | 72.1% |
| MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER HIALEAH | 1,196 | 41.6% | 65.9% |
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 NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.8% | #255 of 2,136 | #42 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.7% | #155 of 2,149 ▲ 104 | #35 of 279 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.7% | #420 of 2,149 ▼ 55 | #70 of 279 ▼ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 996 | #198 of 2,267 | #29 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #1,033 of 2,077 | #108 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.1% | #2,000 of 2,108 | #171 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.5% | #1,544 of 2,188 | #210 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.7% | #629 of 1,374 | #116 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
996
+17 (+2%) vs 2020
-22% since 2010-11, when it was 1,282
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 996 | 63 | 15.8:1 | 41% (413) |
| 2023-24 | 1,018 | 66 | 15.4:1 | 51% (524) |
| 2022-23 | 1,042 | 64 | 16.3:1 | 56% (579) |
| 2020-21 | 979 | 67 | 14.6:1 | 68% (665) |
| 2017-18 | 1,195 | 77 | 15.5:1 | 65% (772) |
| 2015-16 | 1,180 | 77 | 15.3:1 | 67% (792) |
| 2010-11 | 1,282 | 84 | 15.3:1 | 56% (718) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a high-enrollment elementary school in MIAMI, Florida. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 996 students. Against the 604-student average for elementary schools in Florida, enrollment here is 65% higher.
MIAMI-DADE is made up of 527 schools with 335,685 students in all.
Most students at NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic: 93% of enrollment. Other groups include 3% White and 2% Asian. The county population is about 69% Hispanic. NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 14%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates with 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 15.8:1. That ratio is under the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 41% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
The allk12 Grade for NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is A. Compared with Florida public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 93% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida schools. It scores 76.8%; the prediction is 60.4%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Miami-Dade County show that median household income is about $71,753, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County, which together enroll about 335,817 students.
The shortest distance from NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to JORGE MAS CANOSA MIDDLE SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 2nd of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
For locale, NCES codes NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment went from 979 in 2020-21 to 996 in 2024-25, a change of 17 students. The ratio was 14.6:1 in 2020-21 and 15.8:1 in 2024-25.
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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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- 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
- JORGE MAS CANOSA MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,019
- JACK DAVID GORDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 805
- DR. GILBERT L. PORTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 586
- HERBERT A. AMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOL2.9 mi · 999
- CHRISTINA M. EVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.0 mi · 482
- HAMMOCKS MIDDLE SCHOOL3.0 mi · 486
Frequently asked questions
About NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 996 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.8:1 (63 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 3% White, 93% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
NORMA BUTLER BOSSARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
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