The top reported proficiency rate is 58% in Math. The lowest is 45% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Amelia Earhart Elementary School
Amelia Earhart Elementary sits on East 7th Avenue in Hialeah, a densely populated, predominantly Cuban-American city in northwestern Miami-Dade County. The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade in a neighborhood shaped by compact residential blocks, industrial corridors near rail lines, and the kind of everyday Cuban commercial life — bakeries, cafecitos, local shops — that defines Hialeah's street character. It is a regular public school within Miami-Dade County Public Schools, not a charter or magnet program.
The student body is nearly entirely Hispanic, with a very small share of Black students and negligible representation of other groups. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this squarely among higher-poverty elementary schools in the region. Data on English learners and students with IEPs were not available in what was reported, so a parent wanting to understand those support structures should ask the school directly.
State assessment results from Florida's FAST exam give a mixed picture. In reading and math, fourth grade stands out as a clear bright spot, with proficiency rates running notably higher than the other tested grades. Third and fifth grade results in both ELA and math sit in a moderate range, and science proficiency at the fifth-grade level is similar in character. None of these figures place the school at a high-achieving extreme, and parents who want to understand whether specific grade-level results reflect instructional factors, student population shifts, or program differences would do well to raise those questions with school staff. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible from this data to characterize whether results are improving, declining, or holding steady.
Because this is a pre-K through fifth-grade school, there is no graduation rate and no AP or dual-enrollment pathway to evaluate. Those measures simply do not apply to this grade band.
The neighbor comparison framework produced no usable ranking. The county's comparison set contains very few districts, which made a meaningful positional read unavailable.
The broader district context matters here. Miami-Dade County Public Schools is managing a real enrollment decline, and publicly reported information indicates that in spring 2026 the district proposed closing or consolidating up to nine schools across its three regions. Families moving to Hialeah should be aware that school assignments and grade configurations are in active flux, and reassignment is a realistic possibility. A voter-approved property-tax measure, passed in 2022, is funding teacher pay and school safety staffing through 2027, when it would need renewal. That levy is a direct cost for homeowners in the district. On cell phones, Miami-Dade opted in 2024 for parental-involvement programming rather than a hard ban, though publicly reported state legislation advanced in 2025 toward a stricter statewide policy required to be in place by the end of 2026.
The housing market surrounding this zip code carries home values well above both the statewide and national medians, with rents running at a level that consumes a substantial share of a typical household's income. Values have been essentially flat year-over-year, slightly softer than the national trend. Buying here at current mortgage rates produces a monthly cost that is meaningfully higher than renting, which is unusual and worth factoring into any relocation decision.
Hialeah itself is in a growth phase. Publicly reported development activity is converting warehouse and industrial land near the city's Metrorail and Tri-Rail stations into dense, mixed-use residential projects, with several large complexes under construction and more proposed. The city is also pursuing a long-range plan built around transit corridors, wider pedestrian infrastructure, and higher housing density. For a family thinking about where the neighborhood is headed, that trajectory suggests continued population and housing pressure near transit hubs, with civic life concentrating around those same corridors.
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