NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools FL

Best-Resourced Schools in South Miami, FL

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

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5
Schools
2,145
Students
46.2/100
Avg Resource Index
18.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, South Miami has more public-school enrollment than 15% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. South Miami's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of South Miami's 5 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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

South Miami's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 75th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 26-point gap between Somerset Academy Elementary School South Miami Campus and South Miami Middle School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 85%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
75th percentile
Teacher staffing
21st percentile

South Miami Middle School accounts for 33.6% of all South Miami public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means South Miami-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. 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

South Miami school enrollment varies 4.3× across entities

South Miami school enrollment ranges from 166 students (lowest) to 720 students (highest), a spread of 554 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

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

South Miami'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

South Miami 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

2 of South Miami's 5 listed schools are charters

40% 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. Somerset Academy Elementary School South Miami Campus 62
2. Ludlam Elementary School 52
3. South Miami K-8 Center 42
4. Somerset Academy Charter Middle School South Miami Campus 39
5. South Miami Middle School 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in South Miami

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 Ludlam Elementary School 44.0/100
  2. 2 South Miami K-8 Center 39.8/100
  3. 3 South Miami Middle School 32.2/100
  4. 4 Somerset Academy Elementary School South Miami Campus 23.0/100
  5. 5 Somerset Academy Charter Middle School South Miami Campus 13.6/100

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

Somerset Academy Elementary School South Miami Campus has the highest Resource Investment Index among the South Miami schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in South Miami, FL? ▼

South Miami has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,145 students. 2 are charter schools. 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.