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How has THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
787
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000557
THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY
525 NW 147TH ST, MIAMI, FL 33168 · (305) 681-7481 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL787 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
14.1:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
530 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 | 50 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 6% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 100 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 91 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 114 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 25% smaller than its 8th grade class (114).
Student demographics
30%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
44.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.8pp since 2023
Math
49.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.2% | 49.6% |
| 2023-24 | 39.4% | 46.8% |
% 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
47.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY
THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY's state test result (47.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY this school | 787 | 67.3% | 47.8% |
| ORIOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAUDERDALE LAKES | 670 | 65.4% | 46.5% |
| PARK LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAUDERDALE LAKES | 903 | 63.3% | 50.0% |
| NORTH BROWARD ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE NORTH LAUDERDALE | 665 | 68.3% | 49.5% |
| HUBERT O. SIBLEY K-8 ACADEMY MIAMI | 812 | 62.1% | 49.1% |
| NORTH LAUDERDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH LAUDERDALE | 605 | 66.8% | 45.6% |
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 THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.8% | #1,445 of 2,136 | #204 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #1,583 of 2,149 ▼ 32 | #237 of 279 ▼ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.2% | #1,593 of 2,149 ▲ 66 | #220 of 279 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 787 | #494 of 2,267 | #62 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #343 of 2,077 | #30 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.3% | #1,834 of 2,108 | #106 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.3% | #573 of 2,188 | #69 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +145.2% | #8 of 621 | #1 of 73 |
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
787
+374 (+91%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 1,200
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 787 | 56 | 14.1:1 | 67% (530) |
| 2023-24 | 788 | 56 | 14.1:1 | 69% (542) |
| 2022-23 | 794 | 57 | 13.9:1 | 70% (554) |
| 2020-21 | 413 | 29 | 14.2:1 | 96% (397) |
| 2017-18 | 321 | 30 | 10.7:1 | 87% (279) |
| 2015-16 | 331 | 27 | 12.3:1 | 93% (309) |
| 2010-11 | 534 | 39 | 13.7:1 | 89% (475) |
| 2000-01 | 1,189 | 72 | 16.5:1 | 86% (1,027) |
| 1990-91 | 1,200 | 71 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY.
About THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY
THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY is classified as an elementary school. It is located in MIAMI, Florida. The school counts 787 students across pre-K through 8. The typical figure for elementary schools in Florida is about 604 students.
THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY is a school in MIAMI-DADE. The district has 527 schools and 335,685 students.
Black students make up 82% of enrollment at THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY. The remaining students are 16% Hispanic. Census figures show Miami-Dade County is about 15% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 30% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY total 56 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.1:1. That is 3.4 students per teacher below the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 67%. The 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County is 19 points lower.
allk12 grades THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY a C+. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY lands between the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 47.8%; the prediction is 47.4%.
Miami-Dade County census figures show that the median household income is $71,753, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Miami-Dade County is home to 561 public schools and about 335,817 public school students.
The closest other public school is MIAMI-DADE VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL FRANCHISE, about 0.2 miles away. THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY's average proficiency of 47.8% compares with 53.1% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Under the NCES locale system, THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY is Suburb: Large.
Federal counts for THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY: 413 students in 2020-21, 787 in 2024-25. A gap this wide can follow a change in the grades offered.
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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
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- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
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- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in MIAMI
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Nearby schools
- MIAMI-DADE VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL FRANCHISE0.2 mi · 498
- LINDA LENTIN K-8 CENTER0.9 mi · 594
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN K-8 CENTER1.3 mi · 548
- NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 430
- RAINBOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 172
- NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES1.5 mi · 315
Frequently asked questions
About THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY?
THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY enrolls approximately 787 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY serve?
THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY?
Approximately 14.1:1 students per teacher at THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY.
What is the racial breakdown of students at THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY?
At THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY, the student body is approximately 1% White, 16% Hispanic, 82% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY public or private?
THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.