The top reported proficiency rate is 36% in Math. The lowest is 30% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Parkview Elementary School
Parkview Elementary School sits on the northwest edge of Miami Gardens, a large suburban city in Miami-Dade County. The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public elementary school within Miami-Dade County Public Schools, one of the country's largest districts.
The school is quite small for its grade band. The student body is predominantly Black, with a meaningful share of Hispanic students and very small numbers of other groups. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing the school in a high-need economic context. Data on English learner status and special education rates were not available in this data set.
Florida's FAST assessment results for the most recent school year show proficiency in math ranging across tested grades, with third grade performing best among the three tested grade levels and fifth grade showing the lowest share of students reaching proficiency. In reading and language arts, fourth grade performed notably better than third and fifth, where fewer than a third of students reached proficiency levels. Fifth-grade science results were similar to ELA, with roughly the same share of students scoring proficient or above. Across all subjects and grades, these figures fall below what most families would consider a strong academic floor, and a parent would benefit from a direct conversation with the school about its academic support systems, intervention programming, and what specific steps teachers take when students are behind grade level. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say from this data alone whether results are improving, holding steady, or declining.
A graduation rate is not applicable here; the school ends at fifth grade.
The school is part of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, and the district context matters for any family enrolling. The district is experiencing real enrollment decline, and publicly reported news indicates that up to nine schools may close or consolidate ahead of the next school year, with reconfigured grade structures possible. Families new to the area should ask directly whether Parkview or nearby schools are under any boundary or restructuring review. The district also passed a property-tax levy that runs through 2027 to fund teacher pay and campus security, which adds a modest ongoing cost for homeowners and has implications for how competitive teacher compensation is in the building.
The comparison framework for this school covers districts in Miami-Dade County, but the cohort available for direct comparison was too small to produce a meaningful proficiency ranking, so that placement is not reported here.
Miami Gardens itself is a car-dependent city, publicly reported as minimally walkable, with an auto-oriented commercial fabric of strip malls and surface lots. The city does not have a historic downtown, though a major mixed-use city center project broke ground recently near Hard Rock Stadium. Parks and recreational programming are genuinely present, with more than a dozen municipal parks, a large recreational complex, and county trail connections. The housing market near the school carries home values well above the state median, and rents have been rising, making affordability a real consideration. Single-family values in the immediate zip code have edged slightly downward year over year while rents have moved in the opposite direction.
For a family weighing this school, the clearest picture is a small, high-need elementary with FAST proficiency rates that are low across the board, set inside a large district navigating significant structural change. The school's small size can mean closer relationships, but the academic results as reported are an area worth pressing into before enrolling.
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