POINCIANA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 6745 NW 23RD AVE, in MIAMI, Florida, POINCIANA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a very small K-5 school that caters to 169 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under MIAMI-DADE. That puts it 72% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. POINCIANA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, POINCIANA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, POINCIANA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.4%; POINCIANA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 23.6%, -20.8 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Miami-Dade County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which POINCIANA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

LIBERTY CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around POINCIANA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts POINCIANA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 43.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. POINCIANA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 52% since 2018, when it stood at 354 (now 169). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 12% to 27%.

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