SYLVANIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SYLVANIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in MIAMI, Florida, overseen by MIAMI-DADE, teacheing 551 students in grades pre-K through 5.

MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; SYLVANIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, SYLVANIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). Other groups include 3% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting SYLVANIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SYLVANIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.4%, the actual is 60.9%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), SYLVANIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is FAIRLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SYLVANIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. SYLVANIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 491 (now 551).

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