Enrollment
318
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000485
OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
9797 SW 40TH ST, MIAMI, FL 33165 · (305) 221-3821 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL318 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 63% 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.
- 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
14.4:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
219 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 47% smaller than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
5%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
61.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +17.9pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 18 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.9% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 61.9% |
% 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
46.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (56.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 318 | 68.9% | 56.2% |
| VICTORY CHARTER SCHOOL K-5 KISSIMMEE | 344 | 64.2% | 29.8% |
| NORTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 478 | 67.4% | 46.5% |
| AMELIA EARHART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 454 | 64.3% | 51.3% |
| FLAMINGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 484 | 66.7% | 48.3% |
| TWIN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIALEAH | 325 | 59.1% | 43.6% |
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 OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.2% | #1,038 of 2,136 | #153 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #778 of 2,149 ▲ 92 | #130 of 279 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.9% | #751 of 2,149 ▲ 690 | #115 of 279 ▲ 71 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 318 | #1,951 of 2,267 | #234 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #486 of 2,077 | #45 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.9% | #2,069 of 2,108 | #230 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.9% | #499 of 2,188 | #56 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.9% | #220 of 1,374 | #53 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
318
-33 (-9%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 532
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 12.5:1
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 | 318 | 22 | 14.4:1 | 69% (219) |
| 2023-24 | 322 | 23 | 14.0:1 | 75% (241) |
| 2022-23 | 316 | 22 | 14.4:1 | 78% (245) |
| 2020-21 | 351 | 28 | 12.5:1 | 89% (314) |
| 2017-18 | 447 | 31 | 14.4:1 | 86% (386) |
| 2015-16 | 532 | 36 | 14.8:1 | 90% (481) |
| 2010-11 | 547 | 41 | 13.3:1 | 87% (474) |
| 2000-01 | 646 | 40 | 16.1:1 | 72% (462) |
| 1990-91 | 532 | 30 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school in MIAMI, Florida. The student body numbers 318 students, from pre-K through 5. The average among elementary schools in Florida is roughly 604 students; this school is 47% smaller than that.
MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools with a combined 335,685 students. OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment is 97% Hispanic. Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 5% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 22 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 14.4:1. That is lower than the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 69%. It compares with 48% for public schools in Miami-Dade County.
The allk12 Grade for OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is B. Compared with Florida public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 63% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 9.6 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Florida schools.
OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Miami-Dade County, where the median household income is $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in the county.
ROCKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles away. The five-mile area around OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency of 56.2% compares with 64.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment at OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL declined 9% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 351 to 318 students. The ratio was 12.5:1 in 2020-21 and 14.4:1 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
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Frequently asked questions
About OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 318 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 1% White, 97% Hispanic, 2% Black.
What district is OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of MIAMI-DADE.
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