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MIAMI-DADE

Miami, Florida · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

333,233
Students enrolled
530
Public schools
17,139
Classroom teachers (FTE)
19.4:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 9,345
  • Kindergarten 20,623
  • Grade 1 22,007
  • Grade 2 23,279
  • Grade 3 25,418
  • Grade 4 23,872
  • Grade 5 24,693
  • Grade 6 24,056
  • Grade 7 25,270
  • Grade 8 26,788
  • Grade 9 26,822
  • Grade 10 27,942
  • Grade 11 26,966
  • Grade 12 26,152

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 76%
  • Black or African American 16%
  • White 6%
  • Asian 1%
  • Two or more races <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

48% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 161,818 of 335,005 students in the 511 of its 521 schools that report
  • Free lunch 44%
  • Reduced-price lunch 5%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$13,931 spent per student on day-to-day operations Florida median: $12,447 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $8,844
  • Support services $4,493
  • Other (food service, etc.) $594

Where the money comes from

  • Local 62%
  • State 20%
  • Federal 18%

Total revenue $5.5 billiontotal spending $5.2 billion

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: LargeStudents: 76% suburb, 22% city, 1% rural

Total staff (FTE)

35,539

District office

1450 NE 2ND AVE # 912, Miami FL 33132

County

Miami-dade County

Official website

NCES District ID

1200390

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About MIAMI-DADE

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools is the fourth largest school district in the United States, comprised of 392 schools, 345,000 students and over 40,000 employees. Located at the southern end of the Florida peninsula, the school district stretches over 2,000 square miles of diverse and vibrant communities ranging from rural and suburban to urban cities and municipalities. A truly global community, district students speak 56 different languages and represent 160 countries.
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