The top reported proficiency rate is 54% in Math. The lowest is 37% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Brentwood Elementary School
Brentwood Elementary sits on NW 191st Street in Miami Gardens, a large suburban city in northern Miami-Dade County. It serves children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The enrollment is modest for a school serving this grade band, and the student body is predominantly Black, with a meaningful share of Hispanic students. A large majority of families qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places Brentwood among the higher-need schools in Miami-Dade. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs was not available in the materials we reviewed.
On Florida's state assessments, the picture is mixed and warrants honest attention. In math, third-grade proficiency sits just below half, while fourth grade is roughly at half and fifth grade is meaningfully higher, approaching two-thirds. That upward progression through the grades in math is a genuinely encouraging pattern. Reading tells a more uneven story: third grade is just under half, fifth grade is just above half, but fourth-grade ELA proficiency is noticeably lower, well below half. The fifth-grade science assessment, the only grade tested in that subject, shows fewer than half of students reaching proficiency, and the figure is closer to a third. These results are below state norms in most cases, and a parent who wants to understand how individual students are progressing should ask the school about its targeted reading and science supports. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these numbers are improving, holding, or declining.
No programs data was available for Brentwood, so details about enrichment, gifted services, or specialist instruction could not be assessed here. Discipline, attendance, and staffing data were also absent from the materials provided.
The surrounding community is worth understanding in its own right. Miami Gardens is a publicly reported car-dependent city, auto-oriented in design, with a walk score that reflects minimal pedestrian infrastructure. It is the third-largest city in Miami-Dade County by land area, and the school sits in a zone the city is actively reshaping: the Miami Gardens City Center project, publicly reported as a major mixed-use development near Hard Rock Stadium, broke ground in 2024 just south of the school's address along NW 27th Avenue. This stretch of the city is genuinely in transition. The area has parks, a regional library branch through Miami-Dade's library system, and transit connections including Metrobus and Tri-Rail at the city's southeast edge, though a car is effectively required for most trips.
Housing near the school carries prices above both the Florida and national benchmarks, a pattern consistent across much of Miami-Dade. Rents have risen over the past year. The estimated monthly mortgage cost for a median-priced home in this zip code implies a demanding financial commitment for most families, and the rent-to-income ratio is high relative to typical benchmarks. The district's publicly reported voter-approved property tax levy, set at one mill and running through 2027, adds an ongoing cost for homeowners and funds teacher pay and school safety staffing.
At the district level, Miami-Dade is experiencing sustained enrollment decline. Publicly reported coverage from spring 2026 indicates the district was weighing closures or consolidations affecting schools across all three regions, with possible grade reconfigurations. Families moving to the area should ask directly which attendance boundary applies to their address and whether any boundary or closure decisions affect Brentwood, since the board was expected to vote on these proposals in mid-2026.
The comparison set for Miami-Dade County includes only a small number of districts, and the data did not yield a meaningful proficiency ranking against county peers, so that comparison is not available here.
For a family enrolling in the pre-K or early elementary grades, Brentwood offers a neighborhood public option in a community that is actively investing in its built environment and commercial base. The academic performance data, particularly in fourth-grade reading and fifth-grade science, is an area a parent may want to discuss with the school before enrolling.
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