PINECREST GLADES ACADEMY

PINECREST GLADES ACADEMY is a moderately sized primary school in MIAMI, Florida, overseen by MIAMI-DADE. The school caters to 900 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 49% bigger than the state mean of about 604.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), PINECREST GLADES ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, PINECREST GLADES ACADEMY reports that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 49% of students at PINECREST GLADES ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PINECREST GLADES ACADEMY sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 56.8%; actual is 78.2%, +21.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), PINECREST GLADES ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

PINECREST GLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PINECREST GLADES ACADEMY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PINECREST GLADES ACADEMY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 71.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. PINECREST GLADES ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PINECREST GLADES ACADEMY has ticked up 54%, going from 586 students in 2018 to 900 in 2025.

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