NORTH GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

NORTH GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a micro-enrollment elementary-level community in MIAMI GARDENS, Florida, overseen by MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 216 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 64% leaner than typical.

NORTH GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that works with 335,685 students overall.

Looking at the student body, NORTH GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, NORTH GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting NORTH GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTH GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 45.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) logs that median household income runs about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. NORTH GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

Nearest neighbor: LAKE STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTH GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 18%: 265 students in 2018 compared to 216 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 32% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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