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Enrollment
532
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000509
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1051 NW 29TH TER, MIAMI, FL 33127 · (305) 635-1417 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL532 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
272 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 44 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 36% smaller than its 5th grade class (95).
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→GEORGIA JONES AYERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
28.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
40.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.1% | 40.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.4% | 33.1% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
35.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 56% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (35.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 532 | 51.1% | 35.4% |
| REDONDO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOMESTEAD | 569 | 50.6% | 52.3% |
| BROADMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 501 | 55.3% | 31.6% |
| MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 620 | 51.1% | 38.1% |
| SOUTH MIAMI HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MIAMI | 436 | 52.8% | 47.5% |
| GOLDEN TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 484 | 53.1% | 45.6% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #1,969 of 2,136 | #265 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,923 of 2,149 ▲ 80 | #268 of 279 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.1% | #2,089 of 2,149 ▼ 30 | #272 of 279 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 532 | #1,289 of 2,267 | #132 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #1,315 of 2,077 | #147 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.5% | #1,955 of 2,108 | #145 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.1% | #1,257 of 2,188 | #170 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.3% | #876 of 1,374 | #145 of 185 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
532
-42 (-7%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 692
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 15.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 532 | 32 | 16.6:1 | 51% (272) |
| 2023-24 | 562 | 34 | 16.5:1 | 55% (307) |
| 2022-23 | 596 | 37 | 16.1:1 | 59% (353) |
| 2020-21 | 574 | 38 | 15.1:1 | 99% (570) |
| 2017-18 | 600 | 39 | 15.4:1 | 93% (560) |
| 2015-16 | 597 | 40 | 14.9:1 | 98% (588) |
| 2010-11 | 548 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 99% (540) |
| 2000-01 | 825 | 51 | 16.2:1 | 99% (815) |
| 1990-91 | 692 | 40 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school based in MIAMI, Florida. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 532 students enrolled.
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits within MIAMI-DADE, which has 527 schools and 335,685 students.
At SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 89% of students are Hispanic. After that, the student body is 11% Black. Census figures show Miami-Dade County is about 69% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 20%.
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a ratio of 16.6 students per teacher, from 32 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average ratio is 17.5:1. Lunch program data show 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is in line with the 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County.
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 20.1 points (35.4% versus 55.5%), a bottom-10% result in Florida on BeatsExpectations.
Miami-Dade County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Miami-Dade County with 560 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to MATER ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 5th of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of City: Large.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 7%. By 2024-25, the school had 16.6 students per teacher, compared with 15.1 in 2020-21.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Miami-Dade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,738,356
Census ACS
Median income
$71,753
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
561
335,817 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in MIAMI
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Other Santa Clara Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Santa Clara Elementary. SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- Santa Clara Elementary SchoolTUCSON, AZ · 422 students
- Santa Clara ElementarySanta Paula, CA · 53 students
Nearby schools
- MATER ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES0.2 mi · 465
- MATER INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY0.2 mi · 212
- JOSE DE DIEGO MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 647
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS0.6 mi · 36
- ENEIDA M. HARTNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 324
- SECONDARY STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER 8020.7 mi · 16
Frequently asked questions
About SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 532 students in grades PK-05.
Is SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
How diverse is SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 0% White, 89% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian.
Who oversees SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by MIAMI-DADE in Miami-Dade County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.