Enrollment
315
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039002713
NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES
1840 NW 157TH ST, MIAMI GARDENS, FL 33054 · (305) 625-3885 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL315 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Florida public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
14.3:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
144 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
45%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
83.7%
FL avg 56.7% . -6.7pp since 2023
Math
94.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.7% | 94.0% |
| 2023-24 | 90.4% | 93.7% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
90.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+32.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% 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 32 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 NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES
NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES's state test result (90.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES this school | 315 | 45.7% | 90.4% |
| CENTRAL RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 347 | 49.6% | 70.1% |
| GLADES ACADEMY INC PAHOKEE | 271 | 36.9% | 40.7% |
| SEALEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 369 | 49.9% | 48.9% |
| BANYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUNRISE | 427 | 55.0% | 55.2% |
| MIRAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIRAMAR | 380 | 57.9% | 58.4% |
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 NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 90.4% | #11 of 2,136 | #6 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #16 of 2,149 ▼ 2 | #9 of 279 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.7% | #73 of 2,149 ▼ 63 | #22 of 279 ▼ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 315 | #1,957 of 2,267 | #235 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #434 of 2,077 | #38 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.3% | #1,536 of 2,108 | #59 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.7% | #1,425 of 2,188 | #197 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.6% | #507 of 1,374 | #101 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
315
-24 (-7%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 415
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 315 | 22 | 14.3:1 | 46% (144) |
| 2023-24 | 320 | 23 | 13.9:1 | 53% (169) |
| 2022-23 | 333 | 23 | 14.5:1 | 58% (192) |
| 2020-21 | 339 | 26 | 13.0:1 | 75% (254) |
| 2017-18 | 392 | 27 | 14.5:1 | 72% (283) |
| 2015-16 | 384 | 28 | 13.7:1 | 78% (298) |
| 2010-11 | 383 | 25 | 15.3:1 | 67% (257) |
| 2000-01 | 516 | 30 | 17.2:1 | 49% (255) |
| 1990-91 | 415 | 27 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES.
About NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES
NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES is a small elementary school in MIAMI GARDENS, Florida, one of the schools in MIAMI-DADE. It had 315 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5. That compares with an average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
MIAMI-DADE operates 527 schools. Combined enrollment is 335,685 students.
Federal enrollment data show NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES is 69% Black. Other groups include 27% Hispanic and 3% White. The county population is about 15% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 45%.
On staff are 22 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.3:1. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 3.2 more students per teacher than here. NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 46%. The average for public schools in Miami-Dade County is similar, at 48%.
Among Florida public elementary schools, NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES outscored 99%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES is 32.1 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in Florida.
The county, Miami-Dade County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $71,753, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county has 561 public schools and about 335,817 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, NORTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES places 1st of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES assigns NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES 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.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 339 to 315, a 7% decline. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.3:1) than in 2020-21 (13.0:1).
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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 NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGESHow large is NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES?
NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES enrolls approximately 315 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES serve?
NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES is approximately 14.3:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES?
Student demographics at NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES are roughly 3% White, 27% Hispanic, 69% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES in?
NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES is part of MIAMI-DADE.
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