WHISPERING PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WHISPERING PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of small scale in MIAMI, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE, caters to 500 students in grades pre-K through 5.

WHISPERING PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that works with 335,685 students overall.

Looking at the student body, WHISPERING PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 16% White, 9% Black, 3% multiracial. Compared to Miami-Dade County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WHISPERING PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.9%, the actual is 74.8%, a residual of +13.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Miami-Dade County put median household income runs about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WHISPERING PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

BOYSTOWN is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WHISPERING PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WHISPERING PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 55.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 544 students in 2018 compared to 500 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 62% to 71%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.