The top reported proficiency rate is 39% in Math. The lowest is 24% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Rainbow Park Elementary School
Rainbow Park Elementary is a public prekindergarten through fifth grade school in Opa-locka, a city within Miami-Dade County. The school is small for its grade band, with enrollment spread across seven grade levels from pre-K through fifth grade. The student body is predominantly Black, with a meaningful share of Hispanic students and very few students of other backgrounds. A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which tells you this is a high-poverty school community. Data on English learner status and students with IEPs were not available in what was provided.
On the Florida state assessments, proficiency rates across reading, math, and science sit well below state norms at every tested grade. In reading, third and fourth graders perform in the low-to-mid thirties range as a share proficient, with fifth grade a bit higher. Math results follow a similar pattern in third and fourth grade, then drop further in fifth. The fifth-grade science assessment shows the lowest proficiency of any reported result. These are candid numbers, and a parent considering this school would reasonably want to ask the school directly about what academic intervention and support structures are in place, how student progress is tracked across the elementary years, and what the school's relationship is with Miami-Dade's broader support systems for underperforming campuses.
A graduation rate does not apply here, as Rainbow Park serves only elementary grades. Because the comparison cohort for Miami-Dade County districts is very small, a meaningful positioning of the school's proficiency against its county peers was not possible from this data.
The housing market surrounding the school reflects Miami-Dade County's broader cost pressures. Home values in the area are above the Florida statewide median and above the national median, though they have edged slightly downward year over year. Rents have moved in the opposite direction, ticking up recently. The rent-to-income ratio in this zip code sits at a level that would be considered housing-cost-burdened by conventional measures. For a family thinking about buying near the school, the estimated monthly mortgage on a typical area home is a substantial financial commitment relative to national income benchmarks.
At the district level, Miami-Dade voters publicly approved a property tax referendum in 2022 to fund teacher compensation and campus security staffing, with that higher tax rate set to expire in 2027 unless renewed. The district is also grappling with a sustained, sharp decline in enrollment, which has prompted a proposal, still under board consideration as of spring 2026, to close or consolidate up to nine schools. Families relocating into the district should be aware that school assignments and grade configurations could shift, and Rainbow Park itself sits within a district actively redrawing its footprint. On cell phones, Miami-Dade initially chose a parental-engagement approach rather than a ban, but state legislation advancing through Tallahassee would require a stricter statewide policy by the end of 2026.
Program offerings for the school were not available in the data provided, so it is not possible to describe enrichment, arts, or specialized programming. Information about the character and community life of Opa-locka itself was not returned in the research conducted for this profile, so that local context was left out rather than filled in.
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