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Enrollment
654
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000488
PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
12401 SW 74TH AVE, MIAMI, FL 33156 · (305) 238-4306 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL654 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 98% of Florida public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
17.7:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
79 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 | 46 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 112 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
56%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
PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→PALMETTO 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
89.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.3pp since 2023
Math
95.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 95 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 up about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.1% | 95.0% |
| 2023-24 | 88.8% | 92.8% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
90.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 75% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (90.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 654 | 12.1% | 90.2% |
| COCONUT GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COCONUT GROVE | 547 | 11.5% | 81.2% |
| MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH MIAMI | 664 | 17.5% | 74.7% |
| LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY RUSKIN | 813 | 9.5% | 51.3% |
| NORTH BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI BEACH | 905 | 20.0% | 79.8% |
| LITERACY/LEADERSHIP/TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY TAMPA | 437 | 8.7% | 41.6% |
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 PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 90.2% | #13 of 2,136 | #8 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 95.0% | #10 of 2,149 ▲ 9 | #4 of 279 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.1% | #19 of 2,149 ▼ 5 | #8 of 279 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 654 | #857 of 2,267 | #84 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #1,615 of 2,077 | #187 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.4% | #1,060 of 2,108 | #6 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.1% | #2,098 of 2,188 | #270 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.5% | #432 of 621 | #48 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
654
+53 (+9%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 654
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 654 | 37 | 17.7:1 | 12% (79) |
| 2023-24 | 639 | 36 | 17.8:1 | 16% (104) |
| 2022-23 | 666 | 36 | 18.5:1 | 16% (104) |
| 2020-21 | 601 | 36 | 16.7:1 | 22% (134) |
| 2017-18 | 620 | 39 | 15.9:1 | 19% (118) |
| 2015-16 | 616 | 37 | 16.6:1 | 24% (149) |
| 2010-11 | 595 | 42 | 14.2:1 | 25% (149) |
| 2000-01 | 727 | 48 | 15.2:1 | 19% (139) |
| 1990-91 | 654 | 44 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in MIAMI, Florida, according to federal school records. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 654 students.
Federal data list 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE, with 335,685 students enrolled.
Federal enrollment data show PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 52% Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 40% White, 4% Black, and 2% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 17 points below the 69% share among Miami-Dade County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 56%.
PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 17.7 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Florida is about 17.5:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 12% of the student body. The gap from the 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County is 36 points.
Among Florida public elementary schools, PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 98%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
A school in Florida with PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 75.1%. PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 90.2%.
Miami-Dade County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Miami-Dade County number 561, with about 335,817 students.
PALMETTO MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest public school to PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 72.3% proficiency; PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 90.2%.
NCES assigns PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 9%.
The discussion board for PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
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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
Other Palmetto Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 5 states are named Palmetto Elementary. PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 10.
- PALMETTO ELEMENTARYORLANDO, FL · 1,006 students
- PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNAPLES, FL · 645 students
- PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPALMETTO, FL · 519 students
- PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWEST PALM BEACH, FL · 508 students
- PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPOINCIANA, FL · 479 students
Nearby schools
- PALMETTO MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 715
- TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT PINECREST0.4 mi · 278
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 2,618
- HOWARD DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 341
- VINELAND K-8 CENTER1.2 mi · 671
- SOMERSET ACADEMY CONTINENTAL1.5 mi · 55
Frequently asked questions
About PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 654 students in grades PK-05.
Is PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.7:1 students per teacher at PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 40% White, 52% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.