The top reported proficiency rate is 48% in Math. The lowest is 35% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Parkway Elementary School
Parkway Elementary sits in the northwestern part of Miami, a regular public school in Miami-Dade County serving children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. It is a small school, well below the enrollment one typically sees at elementary schools in a major urban district. The student body is predominantly Black, with a smaller Hispanic population and very few students of other backgrounds. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which marks this as a high-poverty campus by any standard measure.
On state assessments, the picture is uneven and warrants honest attention. Florida reports FAST results by grade, and Parkway's scores vary considerably across tested grades. In math, third graders score in the majority-proficient range and fourth graders perform even better, which are relatively stronger results. Fifth-grade math proficiency drops sharply, to roughly one in four students reaching the proficient threshold. In ELA, the pattern is harder to read: third-grade reading proficiency is quite low, fourth grade rebounds to a majority-proficient level, and fifth grade falls back to less than a third of students proficient. On the fifth-grade science assessment, fewer than half of students reached proficiency. Multi-year trend data was not available in the data provided, so it is not possible to say whether these numbers are improving, stable, or declining. A parent would be well served asking the school directly about what is driving the grade-to-grade variation, especially the sharp drops in fifth grade. The comparison framework flagged that the county sample is too small to position this school against district peers in a meaningful way, so no county-relative ranking is rendered here.
Discipline, attendance, chronic absenteeism, and staffing data were not available. English learner and special education population rates were also not reported in the data provided. Those are meaningful gaps if a family is evaluating whether the school's support structures match their child's needs.
The school is part of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, and several district-level dynamics bear on any family thinking about enrolling. Publicly reported coverage indicates that the district has been experiencing sharp, sustained enrollment decline, and in spring 2026 it proposed closing or consolidating up to nine schools. Families moving into the area should check whether Parkway itself, or a school it feeds into, is among those under review, and whether attendance boundaries may shift before the next school year. The district also passed a property-tax measure in 2022 to fund teacher pay and campus safety; that higher tax rate continues through 2027 for property owners in the county. On cellphone policy, the district initially took an education-based approach rather than a ban, but state legislation is pushing toward a stricter statewide policy by the end of 2026, which will eventually shape classroom rules district-wide.
The school's address places it in the 33169 zip code, in the northern reaches of Miami. The surrounding housing market carries home values well above the Florida state median and well above national levels, with rent also high relative to income. Both values have edged down modestly over the past year, but affordability remains a real constraint in this market. Miami broadly is a dense, transit-connected city with strong walkability in many neighborhoods, major healthcare and education employers, and a civic infrastructure that includes an extensive library system and a free downtown people-mover. That urban fabric is real, but the immediate neighborhood around NW 188th Street is far removed from downtown Miami's amenities; the city's geographic and economic diversity means proximity to the school's address does not automatically translate to access to the features of central Miami.
Program information for Parkway was not available in the data, so there is nothing to report about enrichment, magnet tracks, or specialized offerings. Families with specific programmatic interests should contact the school or the district directly.
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