The top reported proficiency rate is 67% in Math. The lowest is 50% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Redondo Elementary School
Redondo Elementary sits on SW 304th Street in Homestead, at the southern edge of Miami-Dade County, serving children from pre-kindergarten through third grade. Because Florida's FAST assessments are administered beginning in third grade, academic results are available only for that grade level here. The school serves a solidly Hispanic student body; the vast majority of enrolled children identify as Hispanic, with small Black and white populations rounding out the mix. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing the school in the higher-need range for economic context.
On the most recent FAST assessments in the 2024-25 school year, third-graders performed noticeably better in math than in reading. Math proficiency came in above the midpoint, which is a genuine strength for an early elementary school where foundational numeracy habits are being set. ELA proficiency, by contrast, came in at almost exactly half of third-graders, below what many families would hope for at a point when reading fluency becomes a gateway to all future learning. A parent would be reasonable to ask the school directly about its literacy strategies, how it monitors student progress across the early grades, and what intervention looks like for children who are not yet reading at grade level. Trend data was not available in the payload, so it is not possible to say whether these results represent improvement, stability, or decline.
Data on IEP rates and English learner populations was not reported in the available data, which is worth noting given that Homestead has a substantial immigrant and Spanish-speaking community. Those numbers would matter to families of children with learning differences or who are building English proficiency alongside academic content.
The school is part of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, a large urban district navigating two pressing dynamics right now. Enrollment has been declining meaningfully, and the district publicly proposed closing or combining up to nine schools ahead of the upcoming school year, with the heaviest concentration of proposed changes in the south region, which includes Homestead. Families moving into the area should ask the district directly whether Redondo specifically is part of any boundary change, consolidation, or grade-reconfiguration proposal, because assignments that look stable today may shift. Separately, voters approved a property-tax referendum to fund teacher pay and campus safety staffing, a levy that runs through 2027 and represents a real ongoing cost for homeowners in the district's service area.
Homestead itself is a fast-growing, car-oriented community at the gateway to the Everglades and the Florida Keys, with a strong agricultural and construction economy and a historic downtown that has been actively redeveloped with a new public library, an entertainment complex, and streetscape improvements. The housing market here runs well above the Florida statewide median, though it has softened modestly year over year. Renting absorbs a substantial share of typical household income by national benchmarks. New master-planned communities with single-family homes and townhomes continue to expand, and multiple active builders are putting up low-rise residential developments across the city.
Redondo's grade band means there is no graduation rate or high school program data to assess, and no comparison metric was available given the narrow set of county-level districts in the data. The school's academic story at the moment is one of stronger early math and reading proficiency that falls short of half of third-graders, within a community that is growing and a district that is actively restructuring. For a family with a child entering the early grades, the core questions worth bringing to the school are how literacy is taught and supported, what the intervention pathway looks like, and whether any district-level boundary changes are in prospect for this building.
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