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WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized primary school in MIAMI, Florida, overseen by MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 522 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). Other groups include 8% White, 4% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.0%, the actual is 73.6%, a residual of +10.5 points.
In the surrounding community, Miami-Dade County reports that median household income runs about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
BEN GAMLA CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 74.8%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 21%, going from 657 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.
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