VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL

VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary-level community in MIAMI, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE. The school teaches 586 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 29% White, 18% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.3%; this one delivers 70.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is HIGHLAND OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), VIRGINIA A BOONE-HIGHLAND OAKS SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 654 students in 2018 compared to 586 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 25% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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