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How has NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
443
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000481
NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
19810 NW 14TH CT, MIAMI, FL 33169 · (305) 653-0068 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL443 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% of Florida public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
11.7:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
282 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 | 39 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 38% larger than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
27%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
NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→NORLAND 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
56.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.9pp since 2023
Math
65.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.1% | 65.7% |
| 2023-24 | 52.2% | 58.4% |
% 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
56.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (56.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 443 | 63.7% | 56.2% |
| ARCHCREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH MIAMI | 450 | 65.1% | 53.4% |
| SOMERSET NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL MIRAMAR | 467 | 63.4% | 62.5% |
| NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH MIAMI | 430 | 65.8% | 53.9% |
| BEACON COLLEGE PREP K-8 OPA LOCKA | 424 | 64.6% | 53.3% |
| MORROW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH LAUDERDALE | 512 | 65.4% | 43.9% |
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 NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.2% | #1,039 of 2,136 | #154 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.7% | #840 of 2,149 ▲ 163 | #142 of 279 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.1% | #1,017 of 2,149 ▲ 43 | #147 of 279 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 443 | #1,635 of 2,267 | #175 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #34 of 2,077 | #6 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.6% | #1,897 of 2,108 | #122 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.7% | #755 of 2,188 | #102 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.7% | #1,093 of 1,374 | #165 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
443
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 422
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 443 | 38 | 11.7:1 | 64% (282) |
| 2023-24 | 459 | 43 | 10.7:1 | 69% (316) |
| 2022-23 | 454 | 38 | 11.9:1 | 70% (317) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | 42 | 10.7:1 | 90% (405) |
| 2017-18 | 475 | 41 | 11.6:1 | 81% (384) |
| 2015-16 | 547 | 42 | 13.0:1 | 89% (487) |
| 2010-11 | 511 | 48 | 10.7:1 | 83% (423) |
| 2000-01 | 508 | 44 | 11.6:1 | 77% (393) |
| 1990-91 | 422 | 22 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school with its address in MIAMI, Florida. It educates 443 students in pre-K through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Florida is about 604, so this school runs 27% smaller than that.
MIAMI-DADE enrolls 335,685 students, and its 527 schools include NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About 84% of the student body at NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Black. Smaller groups are 14% Hispanic. County-wide, 15% of Miami-Dade County residents are Black. NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's diversity index is 27%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at the school number 38 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 11.7:1. This ratio sits 5.8 below the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Roughly 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Miami-Dade County is 48%.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 49.3%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 56.2%.
Across Miami-Dade County, the median household income is $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Miami-Dade County is home to 561 public schools and about 335,817 public school students.
NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL is located about 0.4 miles from NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 56.2% is above the 46.4% average for nearby schools.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was 448 in 2020-21 and 443 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
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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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Other schools in MIAMI
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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
Other Norwood Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Norwood Elementary. NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 10.
- Norwood ElementaryBaltimore, MD · 521 students
- Norwood ElementaryKnoxville, TN · 471 students
- Norwood Elementary SchoolWest Jefferson, OH · 445 students
- Norwood Elementary SchoolBURLESON, TX · 425 students
- Norwood ElementaryNorwood, NC · 354 students
Nearby schools
- NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 656
- MIAMI NORLAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,653
- PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 178
- NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 536
- CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 264
- ROBERT RENICK EDUCATIONAL CENTER1.0 mi · 47
Frequently asked questions
About NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 443 students in grades PK-05.
Is NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 11.7:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 1% White, 14% Hispanic, 84% Black, 0% Asian.
Is NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.