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How has VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
586
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000434
VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL
20500 NE 24TH AVE, MIAMI, FL 33180 · (305) 931-1770 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL586 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of Florida public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
17.8:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
197 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 | 42 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
66%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL→HIGHLAND OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
74.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.5pp since 2023
Math
77.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +11.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.3% | 77.9% |
| 2023-24 | 66.8% | 66.7% |
% 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
70.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL
VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL's state test result (70.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL this school | 586 | 33.6% | 70.5% |
| WESTPOINTE ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 683 | 32.1% | 61.1% |
| RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 679 | 33.3% | 75.0% |
| LAKEMONT ELEMENTARY WINTER PARK | 629 | 35.5% | 61.8% |
| HOLLYWOOD HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 640 | 31.6% | 65.4% |
| BROOKSHIRE ELEMENTARY WINTER PARK | 608 | 33.1% | 62.7% |
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 VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.5% | #442 of 2,136 | #65 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.9% | #349 of 2,149 ▲ 318 | #65 of 279 ▲ 44 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.3% | #300 of 2,149 ▲ 169 | #49 of 279 ▲ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 586 | #1,074 of 2,267 | #104 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #1,635 of 2,077 | #193 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.8% | #498 of 2,108 | #1 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.6% | #1,737 of 2,188 | #232 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.4% | #916 of 1,374 | #149 of 185 |
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
586
+2 (+0%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 976
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 586 | 33 | 17.8:1 | 34% (197) |
| 2023-24 | 626 | 36 | 17.4:1 | 38% (237) |
| 2022-23 | 600 | 34 | 17.6:1 | 40% (241) |
| 2020-21 | 584 | 37 | 15.8:1 | 51% (300) |
| 2017-18 | 654 | 43 | 15.2:1 | 53% (345) |
| 2015-16 | 718 | 46 | 15.6:1 | 52% (376) |
| 2010-11 | 665 | 38 | 17.5:1 | 37% (245) |
| 2000-01 | 1,004 | 58 | 17.3:1 | 21% (212) |
| 1990-91 | 976 | 57 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL.
About VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL
As a medium-sized elementary school, VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL serves students in MIAMI, Florida. The school serves 586 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL is part of MIAMI-DADE, where 527 schools serve 335,685 students.
At VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL, the largest share of students is Hispanic, at 47%. It is also 29% White, 18% Black, and 4% Asian. For comparison, the population of Miami-Dade County is roughly 69% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 66% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its 33 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 17.8:1. That is close to the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The school's lunch program data list 34% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Miami-Dade County averages 48%, higher than here.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 70.5% and a predicted 64.3%.
VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL is located in Miami-Dade County, where the median household income is $71,753, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Besides VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL, Miami-Dade County has 560 other public schools.
HIGHLAND OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL is located about 0.1 miles from VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 586, starting from 584. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (17.8:1) than in 2020-21 (15.8:1).
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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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Nearby schools
- HIGHLAND OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 736
- AVENTURA WATERWAYS K-8 CENTER0.5 mi · 2,063
- BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF NORTH MIAMI BEACH1.1 mi · 656
- GULFSTREAM ACADEMY OF HALLANDALE BEACH1.1 mi · 1,227
- IPREP ACADEMY NORTH1.2 mi · 522
- DR. MICHAEL M. KROP SENIOR HIGH1.2 mi · 2,165
Frequently asked questions
About VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOLHow large is VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL?
VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL enrolls approximately 586 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL serve?
VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL is approximately 17.8:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL?
Student demographics at VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL are roughly 29% White, 47% Hispanic, 18% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL public or private?
VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL 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.