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Enrollment
899
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000517
SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
265 E 5TH ST, HIALEAH, FL 33010 · (305) 885-4556 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL899 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% of Florida public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
654 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 104 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 117 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 131 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 135 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 141 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 131 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 140 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (117) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (140).
Student demographics
4%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
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
50.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +9.3pp since 2023
Math
72.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +12.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 72.1% |
| 2023-24 | 40.7% | 59.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
53.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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%.
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 SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (53.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 899 | 72.7% | 53.7% |
| YOUTH CO-OP CHARTER SCHOOL HIALEAH | 761 | 77.4% | 58.8% |
| HENRY M. FLAGLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 792 | 66.0% | 45.3% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY MIAMI | 805 | 67.6% | 78.7% |
| WARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INDIANTOWN | 820 | 69.9% | 29.8% |
| WEST GATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 767 | 75.5% | 42.5% |
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 SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.7% | #1,143 of 2,136 | #168 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.1% | #558 of 2,149 ▲ 398 | #95 of 279 ▲ 56 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,305 of 2,149 ▲ 302 | #181 of 279 ▲ 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 899 | #311 of 2,267 | #41 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #1,328 of 2,077 | #148 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 3.5% | #2,087 of 2,108 | #248 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.7% | #355 of 2,188 | #39 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.0% | #1,166 of 1,374 | #173 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
899
+97 (+12%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 1,205
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 | 899 | 54 | 16.6:1 | 73% (654) |
| 2023-24 | 901 | 51 | 17.7:1 | 76% (688) |
| 2022-23 | 828 | 45 | 18.4:1 | 79% (654) |
| 2020-21 | 802 | 53 | 15.1:1 | 94% (756) |
| 2017-18 | 946 | 64 | 14.8:1 | 90% (851) |
| 2015-16 | 1,068 | 69 | 15.5:1 | 93% (993) |
| 2010-11 | 1,214 | 80 | 15.2:1 | 92% (1,117) |
| 2000-01 | 1,149 | 67 | 17.1:1 | 88% (1,010) |
| 1990-91 | 1,205 | 76 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school located in HIALEAH, Florida. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 899 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Florida average about 604 students.
SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of MIAMI-DADE, where 527 schools serve 335,685 students.
About 98% of the student body at SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic. In Miami-Dade County overall, about 69% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 4% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school has about 16.6 students per teacher and 54 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Miami-Dade County average 48%.
allk12 grades SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a B. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 53.7%, compared with a predicted 44.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Miami-Dade County show that the median household income is $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in the county.
The closest other public school is EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH, about 0.4 miles away. SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency of 53.7% compares with 53.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment at SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL climbed 12% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 802 to 899 students. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.1:1 to 16.6:1 over the same years.
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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 HIALEAH
- HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- AMERICAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,582 students
- PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,422 students
- HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,367 students
- MATER ACADEMY LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,201 students
- MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTERElementary · 1,196 students
Nearby schools
- EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH0.4 mi · 287
- HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 700
- MIAMI SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 381
- INTEGRATED SCIENCE AND ASIAN CULTURE (ISAAC) ACADEMY0.7 mi · 268
- MIAMI SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 666
- ACADEMY FOR INNOVATIVE EDUCATION1.0 mi · 1,063
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 899 students in grades PK-05.
Is SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 54 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
What is the student diversity at SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 1% Black.
What district is SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
SOUTH HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of MIAMI-DADE.
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