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What's one thing OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
543
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000482
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
15640 NE 8TH AVE, MIAMI, FL 33162 · (305) 945-1511 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL543 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
359 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
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
39.8%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.8pp since 2023
Math
40.4%
FL avg 58.9% . -6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
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
43.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
543
-33 (-6%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 16.0:1
% White
1%
was 1%
% Hispanic
14%
was 7%
% Black
84%
was 91%
% Asian
1%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in MIAMI, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE, caters to 543 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (84%) are Black. Other groups include 14% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 15% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.0%; this one delivers 43.9%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).
Nearest neighbor: NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 6%, going from 576 students in 2018 to 543 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 91% to 84%. Class-load math has widened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.
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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
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
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
- NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 430
- JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,052
- GERTRUDE K. EDELMAN/SABAL PALM0.9 mi · 476
- NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH0.9 mi · 1,075
- LINDA LENTIN K-8 CENTER1.0 mi · 594
- C. G. BETHEL HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 269
Frequently asked questions
About OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 543 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.5:1 students per teacher at OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 1% White, 14% Hispanic, 84% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OAK GROVE 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.