Miami-Dade

District-Level NCES Analysis

Miami-Dade operates 520 public schools serving 334,090 students, placing it among the largest districts in Florida. The school portfolio breaks down into 281 combined, 84 high, 79 elementary, 76 middle schools, giving families in a major system a clear picture of grade-band coverage across a large portfolio before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Miami-Dade County.

Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,258 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 67 Florida districts by per-pupil spending. See how Florida compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 57.2% local, 23.3% state, and 19.5% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 51/100, ranked #31 of 67 in Florida against a state average of 51, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.

Academic infrastructure includes 98 of 520 schools offering Advanced Placement (1225 AP courses district-wide), a 413.3:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 28.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 72.4% Hispanic or Latino, 20.9% African American, 5.2% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Virginia a Boone-Highland Oaks School, with a diversity index of 65.8/100.

Its largest campus is John a. Ferguson Senior High, enrolling 4,291 students (1% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Restart 500 Role Models, at 2 students, a 2146x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.