RUTH K. BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTER

RUTH K. BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTER is a K-5 school of well-populated scale in BAY HARBOR ISLANDS, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE, instructing 1,257 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 108% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. RUTH K. BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTER is one of those campuses.

Demographically, RUTH K. BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTER lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 42% White, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully less Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, RUTH K. BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTER logs 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 21% of students at RUTH K. BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTER qualify 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 somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, RUTH K. BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.7%; this one delivers 82.2%.

Around the school, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household income runs about $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. RUTH K. BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTER is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

Nearest neighbor: MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH), around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RUTH K. BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTER comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 70.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. RUTH K. BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTER's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 1,383 (now 1,257). Hispanic enrollment moved from 57% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 today.

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