The top reported proficiency rate is 41% in Math. The lowest is 22% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Comstock Elementary School
Comstock Elementary sits on NW 18th Avenue in Miami, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The school's enrollment falls in the middle range for an elementary school of its grade span. The student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, with a smaller Black population and very few students of other backgrounds. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, making this a high-poverty school by any measure. Data on English learner rates and students with IEPs were not available in the records we reviewed.
State assessment results from Florida's FAST and Statewide Science assessments tell a consistent story across grades three through five: proficiency rates in math, ELA, and science are well below the state midpoint. In math, third-graders are approaching half proficient, but the rate falls in fourth and fifth grade. ELA results are weaker still, with fewer than a quarter of students at any tested grade reaching proficiency. Fifth-grade science results follow a similar pattern. These are not borderline gaps; they represent real academic distance from grade-level expectations, and parents would be well served by asking the school directly about its instructional approach, its intervention supports, and how it tracks individual student progress over time. Multi-year trend data was not available, so there is no basis here to say whether things are improving, holding, or declining.
Comstock is a non-charter, non-magnet neighborhood school, and we found no program offerings listed in the data. Given the grade band, graduation rate is not applicable.
The neighborhood context matters here. The school sits in a dense urban part of Miami, a city that is genuinely walkable in many pockets, with transit infrastructure including Metrorail, the free Metromover, and a growing network of green corridors like the Underline. Miami itself is a city where government, healthcare, education, and tourism anchor the employment base, with institutions like Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Baptist Health South Florida, Jackson Health System, and the University of Miami among the largest employers, alongside an expanding tech and financial services presence.
The housing market near the school is Miami-priced: typical home values are well above the statewide median and near the national median, though the zip code has seen a modest year-over-year decline in home values. Rents have ticked upward. The price-to-income ratio here is elevated relative to national norms, and rent consumes a meaningful share of a typical household's income. This is not an affordable-entry housing market by most measures.
At the district level, Miami-Dade families should be aware of several active dynamics. Voters approved a property tax increase a few years ago to fund teacher pay and campus safety, and that rate is set to expire in 2027 unless renewed. More immediately, declining enrollment across the district has pushed a proposal to close or consolidate a significant number of schools before the next school year, with new grade configurations possible, meaning a family enrolling now should ask whether Comstock itself is affected by boundary or consolidation discussions. Enrollment decline at the county level has been publicly reported as partly tied to a slowdown in immigration. Separately, a statewide move toward a full school-day cell phone restriction is working through the Florida legislature, which would affect district policy by the end of next year regardless of Miami-Dade's earlier, softer approach.
For a family weighing Comstock: the school serves a tight-knit, predominantly Hispanic, working-class community in a dense urban neighborhood with real access to transit and city resources. The academic proficiency data show meaningful gaps that are worth a direct conversation with school leadership. The district context is one of transition, and a parent would be wise to check the school's current boundary and consolidation status before making a housing or enrollment decision.
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