The top reported proficiency rate is 56% in Math. The lowest is 32% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Shadowlawn Elementary School
Shadowlawn Elementary is a small Miami-Dade public school serving kindergarten through fifth grade, located at a Northwest Miami address in the 33127 zip code. The enrollment is quite small for a K-5 school, and that small size shapes everything about how to read the available data.
The student body is predominantly Black, with a significant Hispanic share and very little racial diversity beyond those two groups. A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this firmly among Miami-Dade's higher-poverty elementary schools. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not reported in the data we have, so those shares are unknown.
State testing results come from Florida's FAST assessment, covering grades three through five in reading and math, and the fifth-grade science exam. Because the tested groups in each grade are quite small, a single student passing or not passing can shift a rate noticeably, so these figures carry more uncertainty than they would at a larger school. With that caveat plainly stated: third-grade math was the strongest result, with most tested students reaching proficiency. Third-grade reading was more mixed, with roughly three in five students proficient. Fourth and fifth grades showed meaningfully lower proficiency in both reading and math, with fourth-grade reading being the softest result of any subject-grade combination. Fifth-grade science showed fewer than a third of students reaching proficiency. These patterns, particularly the drop from third to fourth grade in both subjects, are worth asking the school about directly. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these results reflect improvement, decline, or a stable pattern.
No graduation rate applies here; Shadowlawn serves only elementary grades. No program information was provided in the data, so details on any enrichment, reading intervention, arts, or after-school offerings were not available to us and would need to come from the school itself.
The comparison framework for this school covers Miami-Dade County's districts, but the cohort used for positioning was too small to produce a reliable proficiency index comparison, so no peer-relative standing is available.
On the housing side, the zip code sits in a part of Miami where home values are well above both the state and national medians, and rents carry a notable affordability burden relative to income. The broader Miami context is worth understanding for families making a location decision. The city is large and urban, with walkable neighborhoods, an elevated rail and people-mover network, and a civic infrastructure anchored by libraries, parks, and cultural institutions. Employment is concentrated in government, health care, and tourism, with Baptist Health, Jackson Health, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, and Florida International University among the larger institutional employers.
At the district level, Miami-Dade is navigating a real decline in enrollment, publicly reported as the steepest in recent memory, and the district proposed closing or consolidating up to nine schools in spring 2026 with a school board vote expected by mid-June. Families moving into the area should confirm Shadowlawn's assignment status and whether its boundaries or grade structure are under review. The district also passed a property-tax referendum in 2022 that raised school taxes to fund teacher pay and campus security; that rate runs through 2027 and directly affects homeowners. On cell phones, Miami-Dade initially chose guidance programs over a hard ban, but state legislation is pushing toward a full school-day prohibition required by end of 2026.
For a family weighing Shadowlawn, the honest picture is a very small school with a high-poverty student body in a dense urban neighborhood, where third-grade results look stronger than those in upper elementary grades, where program detail is thin in the available data, and where the broader district is in active consolidation. Visiting the school and asking directly about instructional supports, class stability, and whether the school is on any proposed closure or boundary list would be the right next step.
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