SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
This school has no state test results for 2023-24 or 2024-25 to grade, which is common for schools that end before third grade. How grades work
Enrollment by grade, 2023-24
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 17 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 25 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 23 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 15 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 21 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 26 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (17) is 35% smaller than its 5th grade class (26).
School pathway
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2023-24 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 53 and 56.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
Where SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #1,546 of 2,136 | #217 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,415 of 2,149 | #218 of 279 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #1,708 of 2,149 | #235 of 279 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 127 | #2,174 of 2,267 | #281 of 290 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.7% | #103 of 2,188 | #19 of 283 |
6-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2023-24Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | 127 | 6 | 21.2:1 | 83% (105) |
| 2022-23 | 129 | 6 | 21.5:1 | 84% (109) |
| 2020-21 | 173 | 15 | 11.5:1 | 95% (164) |
| 2017-18 | 238 | 15 | 15.9:1 | 95% (227) |
| 2015-16 | 255 | 17 | 15.0:1 | 98% (251) |
| 2010-11 | 307 | 23 | 13.3:1 | 98% (301) |
| 2000-01 | 519 | 37 | 14.0:1 | 96% (498) |
| 1990-91 | 708 | 44 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
About SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Students in MIAMI, Florida, attend SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a very small elementary school. It reported 127 students in pre-K through 5 in 2023-24. Elementary schools in Florida average about 604 students, which makes this school 79% below average.
SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in MIAMI-DADE, a system of 527 schools with 335,685 students.
At SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 83% of students are Black. It is also 17% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Miami-Dade County is roughly 15% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 29%.
SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 21.5:1. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 4.0 fewer students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 83% at SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The rate at public schools in Miami-Dade County averages 48%, lower than here.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 39.7% at SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 45.7%.
The county, Miami-Dade County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $71,753, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. The county's public schools total 561, with about 335,817 students.
SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's nearest public school is TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE ELEMENTARY (about 0.6 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 6th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
For locale, NCES codes SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as City: Large.
Enrollment was 238 in 2017-18 and 127 in 2023-24. Large swings like this can come from changes to the grades a school serves. Students per teacher increased from 15.9 in 2017-18 to 21.2 in 2023-24.
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