ORCHARD VILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ORCHARD VILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ORCHARD VILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of close-knit scale in MIAMI, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE, instructing 283 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 604.
ORCHARD VILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that educates 335,685 students overall.
On demographics, ORCHARD VILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 56%; the rest consists of 42% Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, ORCHARD VILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ORCHARD VILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.8%; this one delivers 42.8%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) shows that median household income runs about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), ORCHARD VILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
CHARLES R DREW K-8 CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ORCHARD VILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ORCHARD VILLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 30%, going from 403 students in 2018 to 283 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 82% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.
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