Winston Park K-8 Center, Miami FL

Original Research by School Decision on Winston Park K-8 Center

Winston Park K-8 Center sits in the southwestern part of Miami, serving students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade within Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Its grade span means it covers the full elementary and middle school run under one roof, which can be a draw for families who value continuity across those years and prefer not to navigate a separate middle school transition.

The school's student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, reflecting the surrounding neighborhood's character. About half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, making the school economically mixed without being at either extreme. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs were not available in the sources reviewed, so parents with specific questions about those programs should ask the school directly.

On state assessments, Winston Park's results from the most recent FAST testing cycle show a generally solid picture, with some variation by grade and subject. Math proficiency in grades three and four lands in the upper-two-thirds range, while fifth and eighth grade math results are meaningfully stronger, with the large majority of students testing proficient at those levels. ELA follows a similar pattern: fourth grade is the low point, sixth and seventh grades are solid, and fifth grade ELA is the clearest standout. Science scores from the fifth-grade statewide assessment are in the low-to-mid seventies range, and eighth-grade science is a bit softer. The picture is not uniform across grades, so a parent whose child would enter at fourth grade, for instance, might want to ask the school what it is doing to support reading and writing at that level. The neighbor comparison data for Winston Park was not usable for benchmarking because the county cohort available is too small to produce a meaningful proficiency index, so it is not possible from this data to say where the school sits relative to peers in Miami-Dade.

Multi-year trend data was not available, so the direction of change in these scores cannot be assessed from what was provided here.

The school is a regular public school with no charter or magnet designation. No information on specific program offerings, dual-enrollment access, attendance rates, chronic absenteeism, or discipline data was included in the sources, and those gaps are worth asking the school about directly.

The broader Miami-Dade district context matters here. The district is in a period of meaningful enrollment decline, publicly reported to be at its most pronounced in recent years, and the school board was weighing closures and consolidations across all three regions as of spring 2026. Winston Park itself is not identified in the available data as a school under consideration, but families moving to the area should know that boundary changes and grade structure reconfigurations are active possibilities districtwide. The 2022 voter-approved property tax increase, set to expire in 2027 unless renewed, funds teacher pay and campus safety staffing and adds a direct cost for homeowners in the area.

Housing near the school sits in the southwestern Miami zip code, where home values are somewhat above the Florida statewide median and well above the national median. Values in the immediate area have dipped modestly year over year, and rents have edged down slightly as well. Even with those modest softening trends, the price-to-income ratio here reflects the affordability strain that characterizes Miami broadly, and renting consumes a high share of a typical household's income. The surrounding area of Miami is served by the Metrorail and Metromover systems, though walkability and transit access vary considerably by neighborhood, and the school's address in the far southwest of the city sits well outside the walkable downtown core.

Miami as a city brings a dense, layered employment base anchored by government, healthcare, education, and tourism, with institutions like Miami-Dade County Public Schools itself, Baptist Health South Florida, Jackson Health System, and Florida International University among the largest employers. Families here generally have access to a wide range of economic pathways, though cost of living is a real variable in the decision.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 376%

School 76% · District 69% · ▲ 7 pts above district

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

Grade 467%

School 67% · District 68% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 584%

School 84% · District 62% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 667%

School 67% · District 64% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 769%

School 69% · District 54% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 886%

School 86% · District 60% · ▲ 26 pts above district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 27 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 368%

School 68% · District 60% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 460%

School 60% · District 59% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 582%

School 82% · District 60% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Grade 674%

School 74% · District 63% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 777%

School 77% · District 62% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 868%

School 68% · District 60% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Science

Grade 572%

School 72% · District 56% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 865%

School 65% · District 46% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above 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-income54%Higher-income80%27 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income47%Higher-income71%24 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income82%Higher-income81%1 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income68%Higher-income79%12 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income72%Higher-income82%9 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income64%Higher-income71%8 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income67%Higher-income82%14 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income55%Higher-income77%22 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income84%Higher-income85%1 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income59%Higher-income75%17 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income68%Higher-income70%2 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income88%Higher-income86%2 pp gap