THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY

THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY, a reasonably sized K-5 school in MIAMI, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE, enrolls 787 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 30% larger than typical.

THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that caters to 335,685 students overall.

In terms of who attends, THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY logs that nearly all students (82%) are Black. The remainder consists of 16% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 15% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 47.8%, a residual of +0.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) logs 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%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

MIAMI-DADE VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOL FRANCHISE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.1%.

THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at THOMAS JEFFERSON BISCAYNE GARDENS K-8 ACADEMY has expanded 145%, going from 321 students in 2018 to 787 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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