Carrie P. Meek/westview K-8 Center, Miami FL

Original Research by School Decision on Carrie P. Meek/westview K-8 Center

Carrie P. Meek/Westview K-8 Center is a Miami-Dade County public school serving prekindergarten through eighth grade in a residential stretch of northwest Miami. It is a traditional district school, not a charter or magnet, and draws from a neighborhood that is predominantly Black and Latino, with a large share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what was provided.

The school's academic results on Florida's FAST assessments tell a story with two distinct patterns. In math, the lower elementary grades perform comparably to many urban public schools, with roughly half or better of tested students reaching proficiency in grades three through five and in grade eight. Sixth grade, though, is a clear soft spot, where proficiency drops well below the school's own performance in every other grade, and seventh grade sits meaningfully lower than the school's elementary results as well. Parents of rising sixth and seventh graders may want to ask the school directly what is driving that gap and what supports are in place. In ELA the pattern is almost inverted: the early tested grades are the weaker end, with third and fourth grade proficiency quite low, while seventh and eighth grade results are the school's strongest across any subject. Fifth grade science sits below half proficiency, as does eighth grade science, putting both at levels a parent should ask about. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these numbers are improving or flat.

The school sits in a neighborhood context that Miami residents will recognize as northwest of the urban core, away from the high-rise corridor along Biscayne Bay. Miami overall is a large, dense city with strongly differentiated neighborhoods; the area around NW 127th Street is residential rather than commercially activated in the way Downtown or Wynwood are. The city's Metrorail and Metromover systems provide transit connections across the county, though access to those lines from this address depends on a bus connection. Miami ranks as a very walkable city in aggregate, but walkability is highly uneven by neighborhood, and publicly reported data places the highest walk scores downtown and in areas well south and east of Westview.

Housing near the school reflects broader Miami dynamics. Home values in the surrounding zip code are well above both the state and national midpoints, and monthly rental costs are high relative to income, with rent consuming a substantial share of a median-income household's budget. Home values in this zip code have edged slightly downward year over year. Families looking to buy near the school face a market that, by affordability measures, is stretched.

The district context matters here. Miami-Dade has seen sustained enrollment decline, and in spring 2026 publicly proposed closing or consolidating up to nine schools across its regions, including restructuring some into new K-8, 6-12, and K-12 configurations. Carrie P. Meek/Westview is itself already a K-8 center, a format the district is actively expanding, so families should monitor any boundary or configuration changes before or after enrollment. The district also approved a property-tax referendum extending a one-mill school tax through 2027, which funds teacher pay and campus safety staffing and adds a direct cost for homeowners. A statewide cell phone policy requiring new rules across all schools is also expected by the end of 2026.

No information on program offerings, staffing levels, or chronic absenteeism was provided for this school. The comparison fact-set covering districts in Miami-Dade County flagged that the proficiency index comparison was not applicable due to the size of the available cohort, and graduation rate and absenteeism comparisons were similarly unavailable. A parent evaluating this school alongside others in the county would benefit from requesting school-level data directly from Miami-Dade County Public Schools on both of those measures.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 358%

School 58% · District 69% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Grade 458%

School 58% · District 68% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 555%

School 55% · District 62% · ▼ 7 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 633%

School 33% · District 64% · ▼ 31 pts below district

▼ 29 pts below state median · ▼ 30 pts below county median

Grade 739%

School 39% · District 54% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 855%

School 55% · District 60% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 328%

School 28% · District 60% · ▼ 32 pts below district

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

Grade 425%

School 25% · District 59% · ▼ 34 pts below district

▼ 29 pts below state median · ▼ 31 pts below county median

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 60% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 637%

School 37% · District 63% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 756%

School 56% · District 62% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 861%

School 61% · District 60% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Science

Grade 538%

School 38% · District 56% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 838%

School 38% · District 46% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

This schoolMIAMI-DADE, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income26%Higher-income35%10 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income28%Higher-income17%11 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income44%Higher-income35%9 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income41%Higher-income29%11 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income48%Higher-income67%19 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income67%Higher-income47%20 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income54%Higher-income71%17 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income69%Higher-income33%36 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income67%Higher-income40%27 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income32%Higher-income35%3 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income39%Higher-income40%1 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income58%Higher-income50%8 pp gap