SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in MIAMI, Florida, SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a well-populated elementary campus, run under MIAMI-DADE. It educates 1,192 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 97% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 26% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 7% of students at SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 77.9%; actual is 92.7%, +14.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, Miami-Dade County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 79.3%.

SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 1,178 students in 2018 to 1,192 in 2025.

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