SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in MIAMI, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE, caters to 532 students in grades pre-K through 5.

SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that enrolls 335,685 students overall.

Demographically, SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 11% Black. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 51% of students at SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 55.5%; this one comes in at 35.4%, -20.1 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) logs 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. SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

Nearest neighbor: MATER ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SANTA CLARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 45.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 600 students in 2018 compared to 532 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 76% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.