RUTH OWENS KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER

As an one-room-style unified-grade school in MIAMI, Florida, RUTH OWENS KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER enrolls 97 students from grades pre-K through 12, run under MIAMI-DADE. That puts it 73% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 353 students.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. RUTH OWENS KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, RUTH OWENS KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 38% Black, 7% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 3.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at RUTH OWENS KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

Across the wider county, Miami-Dade County reports that median household income runs about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), RUTH OWENS KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER is one campus in the mix.

BRUCIE BALL EDUCATIONAL CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

RUTH OWENS KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 37%: 153 students in 2018 compared to 97 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 34% to 38% over that span.

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