ROBERT RUSSA MOTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ROBERT RUSSA MOTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a rural-scale K-5 school in PERRINE, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE. The school hosts 168 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 72% below the state mean of about 604.

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

In terms of who attends, ROBERT RUSSA MOTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 21% Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ROBERT RUSSA MOTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.9%; this one delivers 37.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) shows that median household earnings sit near $71,753, 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 ROBERT RUSSA MOTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BOYSTOWN, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROBERT RUSSA MOTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROBERT RUSSA MOTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. ROBERT RUSSA MOTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 42% since 2018, when it stood at 292 (now 168). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 7% to 21%. Class-load math has widened: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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