ROCKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROCKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Located at 2790 SW 93RD CT, in MIAMI, Florida, ROCKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate elementary-level community that caters to 370 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by MIAMI-DADE. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 39% smaller than typical.
Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, ROCKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, ROCKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROCKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.5%, the actual is 64.4%, a residual of +10.9 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) reports that median household earnings sit near $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which ROCKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
ROCKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROCKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.0%.
ROCKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 444 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.
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