NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools FL

Best-Resourced Schools in Miami Beach, FL

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6 public K-12 schools in Miami Beach from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
5,770
Students
39.7/100
Avg Resource Index
18.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Miami Beach has more public-school enrollment than 61% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Miami Beach Senior High School enrolls 37.0% of Miami Beach's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Miami Beach's 6 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 34-point gap between Miami Beach South Pointe Elementary School and Miami Beach Nautilus Middle School shows the range hidden by Miami Beach's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 39%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
44th percentile
Teacher staffing
21st percentile

Miami Beach Senior High School accounts for 37.0% of all Miami Beach public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Miami Beach-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Miami Beach school enrollment varies 4.6× across entities

Miami Beach school enrollment ranges from 462 students (lowest) to 2,134 students (highest), a spread of 1,672 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Miami Beach operates one school district — a single-district system

Miami Beach's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Miami Beach student-teacher ratio is 18.8:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Miami Beach South Pointe Elementary School 57
2. Biscayne Beach Elementary School 50
3. North Beach Elementary School 43
4. Miami Beach Feinberg/Fisher K-8 40
5. Miami Beach Senior High School 25
6. Miami Beach Nautilus Middle School 23

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Miami Beach

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 North Beach Elementary School 53.9/100
  2. 2 Miami Beach South Pointe Elementary School 53.3/100
  3. 3 Miami Beach Nautilus Middle School 45.7/100
  4. 4 Miami Beach Senior High School 43.9/100
  5. 5 Biscayne Beach Elementary School 25.2/100

What do families ask about schools in Miami Beach?

Which Miami Beach school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Miami Beach South Pointe Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Miami Beach schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Miami Beach, FL? ▼

Miami Beach has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,770 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.8:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.