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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
585
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000490
PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
6304 E 1ST AVE, HIALEAH, FL 33013 · (305) 822-0911 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL585 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
15.8:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
329 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 | 38 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 113 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 41% smaller than its 5th grade class (113).
Student demographics
7%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
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
45.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.4pp since 2023
Math
54.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.5% | 54.2% |
| 2023-24 | 39.2% | 45.5% |
% 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
45.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (45.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 585 | 56.2% | 45.7% |
| SYLVANIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 551 | 55.4% | 60.9% |
| SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 508 | 56.3% | 64.3% |
| ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 514 | 53.7% | 70.2% |
| WESLEY MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 490 | 55.1% | 68.0% |
| TICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 516 | 57.8% | 38.5% |
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 PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #1,545 of 2,136 | #216 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #1,359 of 2,149 ▲ 235 | #207 of 279 ▲ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #1,521 of 2,149 ▲ 152 | #209 of 279 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 585 | #1,084 of 2,267 | #107 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #1,032 of 2,077 | #107 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.7% | #2,055 of 2,108 | #216 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.2% | #1,036 of 2,188 | #134 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.1% | #537 of 621 | #62 of 73 |
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
585
+110 (+23%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 928
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
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 | 585 | 37 | 15.8:1 | 56% (329) |
| 2023-24 | 570 | 38 | 15.0:1 | 58% (332) |
| 2022-23 | 559 | 35 | 16.0:1 | 58% (324) |
| 2020-21 | 475 | 38 | 12.5:1 | 85% (403) |
| 2017-18 | 573 | 39 | 14.7:1 | 87% (497) |
| 2015-16 | 635 | 45 | 14.1:1 | 88% (560) |
| 2010-11 | 756 | 48 | 15.8:1 | 89% (674) |
| 2000-01 | 1,080 | 51 | 21.2:1 | 76% (826) |
| 1990-91 | 928 | 46 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In HIALEAH, Florida, PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school. The school had 585 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls under MIAMI-DADE, which has 527 schools enrolling 335,685 students.
Hispanic students make up 97% of enrollment at PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In Miami-Dade County overall, about 69% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 7% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at the school number 37 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.8:1. On average, elementary schools in Florida have 17.5:1, compared with 15.8:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 56% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
allk12 grades PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a C-. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of Florida schools: 45.7% actual against 53.0% predicted.
Within Miami-Dade County, the median household income is $71,753, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County has 561 public schools and roughly 335,817 students.
The nearest public school is HIALEAH MIDDLE SCHOOL, at about 0.8 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 6th on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment at PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL grew 23% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 475 to 585 students. Federal data show the ratio rising from 12.5:1 to 15.8:1.
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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
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- 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 HIALEAH
- HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- AMERICAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,582 students
- PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,422 students
- HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,367 students
- MATER ACADEMY LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,201 students
- MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTERElementary · 1,196 students
Other Palm Springs Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Palm Springs Elementary. PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPALM SPRINGS, FL · 1,069 students
Nearby schools
- HIALEAH MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,002
- AMELIA EARHART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 454
- TWIN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 325
- HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,711
- NORTH TWIN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 590
- NORTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 478
Frequently asked questions
About PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 585 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.8:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 97% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian.
Is PALM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
PALM SPRINGS 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.