18 public K-12 schools in Miami Gardens from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Miami Gardens has more public-school enrollment than 66% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Miami Gardens sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
11 of Miami Gardens's 18 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.
Miami Gardens's reporting schools show 68.3% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 19.8:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 48-point gap between His House and North Gardens High School is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.
Miami Gardens school enrollment ranges from 63 students (lowest) to 859 students (highest), a spread of 796 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Miami Gardens'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
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.
11% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | His House | 63 |
| 2. | Dr. Frederica S. Wilson/Skyway Elementary School | 55 |
| 3. | North Dade Center for Modern Languages | 54 |
| 4. | Lake Stevens Elementary School | 48 |
| 5. | North Dade Middle School | 46 |
| 6. | Miami Gardens Elementary School | 46 |
| 7. | North Glade Elementary School | 46 |
| 8. | Bunche Park Elementary School | 43 |
| 9. | Barbara Hawkins Elementary School | 43 |
| 10. | North County K-8 Center | 42 |
| 11. | Miami Carol City Senior High | 41 |
| 12. | Lake Stevens Middle School | 39 |
| 13. | Brentwood Elementary School | 39 |
| 14. | Charles David Wyche Jr Elementary School | 38 |
| 15. | Excelsior Prep Charter School of Miami | 37 |
| 16. | Carol City Elementary School | 32 |
| 17. | Carol City Middle School | 31 |
| 18. | North Gardens High School | 15 |
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.
His House has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Miami Gardens schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Miami Gardens has 18 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,443 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.8:1.
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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.
