The top reported proficiency rate is 57% in Math. The lowest is 41% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Miami Heights Elementary School
Miami Heights Elementary is a regular public school in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools system, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade at its southwest Miami address. It draws a student body that is overwhelmingly Hispanic, with smaller Black and white populations and very few students of other backgrounds. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this squarely in the category of a high-poverty-serving school. Data on English learner rates and students with individualized education programs was not available in what was provided.
On Florida's FAST assessments, the school's results are uneven across grades and subjects. In math, third graders perform at the stronger end of the school's own range, while fourth grade is slightly lower and fifth grade falls noticeably below the other two. In reading, fourth grade is the weakest point, third grade lands in the middle, and fifth grade is the strongest ELA result the school reports. The fifth-grade science assessment shows that fewer than half of tested students scored proficient. Taken together, the picture is one of moderate to mixed proficiency, with fifth-grade math and fourth-grade ELA being the softer spots parents may want to ask the school about directly. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, holding steady, or declining.
The comparison framework for Miami-Dade County produced too few comparable districts to yield a reliable positioning of this school against its neighbors, so that ranking is not reported here.
No information on specific programs, staffing ratios, attendance rates, or discipline practices was available in the data provided.
The school sits in the 33177 zip code in southwest Miami. Home values in this area are well above both the state and national medians, and they edged slightly downward over the past year. Rents have held roughly flat. The rent-to-income ratio here is high by national standards, and the estimated monthly mortgage on a typical home would consume a large share of a median household's income. Buyers entering this market should weigh those carrying costs carefully.
The broader Miami-Dade district context matters for any family choosing a school here. Publicly reported data indicates that district-wide enrollment has declined sharply, and in spring 2026 the school board was weighing closures or consolidations of up to nine schools across the district's three regions, including several in the south where Miami Heights sits. Families new to the area should verify the school's current assignment status and ask directly whether boundary or grade-structure changes are anticipated, since reassignment is a real possibility under the plans being discussed. A property-tax referendum passed in late 2022 set a higher school tax rate for homeowners, funding teacher pay and safety staffing through 2027, at which point voters would need to renew it. A statewide cell phone policy is also working through Florida's legislative process, with a required district-level policy expected by end of 2026, though Miami-Dade's own approach as of the most recent information was to pursue parental involvement and screen-time education rather than an outright ban.
Miami itself is a large, dense urban city where neighborhood character varies considerably. The southwest area where this school is located is largely residential and removed from the walkable downtown core, which sits well to the north and east. Families who need transit have access to Metrorail's regional network, though direct service to this part of southwest Miami is limited. The city's major employment anchors are government, health care, education, and tourism, with institutions like Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Baptist Health South Florida, Jackson Health System, and the University of Miami among the largest employers. The county as a whole saw population loss in the most recent year of available data, tied in part to slowing immigration, a shift from the rapid growth of the prior decade.
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