SUNSET PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SUNSET PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of close-knit scale in MIAMI, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE, instructing 390 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so SUNSET PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 35% leaner than that benchmark.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. SUNSET PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SUNSET PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 4% White. 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, On paper, SUNSET PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

After controlling for student poverty, SUNSET PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.9%; this one delivers 65.2%.

In the surrounding community, Miami-Dade County reports that median household earnings sit near $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), SUNSET PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

KENDALL GREENS HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUNSET PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SUNSET PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 85.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 35%: 599 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 90% to 95%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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