The top reported proficiency rate is 82% in Math. The lowest is 67% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on William H. Lehman Elementary School
William H. Lehman Elementary sits in the southwestern corner of Miami, in a zip code where home values run well above both state and national medians. The surrounding area is residential in character, part of the broader Miami-Dade urban fabric that stretches from the dense downtown core out through neighborhoods like Coral Way and into the quieter southwestern reaches of the county. The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within Miami-Dade County Public Schools, one of the largest urban districts in the country.
The student body is predominantly Hispanic, reflecting the makeup of the surrounding community, with smaller shares of white, Black, and Asian students. Roughly two in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, meaning a meaningful portion of families face economic constraints, though the school is not majority economically disadvantaged. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs were not available in the records we reviewed, so parents with children in either population may want to ask the school directly about those supports.
On Florida's FAST assessments, Lehman's academic results are genuinely strong, particularly in math. By fifth grade, the large majority of students are testing at proficient levels in math, and proficiency climbs across the tested grades rather than plateauing, which is an encouraging pattern. ELA proficiency is somewhat lower than math at each tested grade but still sits at a solid majority of students performing at grade level by fifth grade, and the trajectory is similarly upward. Fifth-grade science results are close to the two-thirds mark, a bit softer than the math picture but not a cause for alarm on its own. A parent looking for context should know these figures are within-state comparisons reported by Florida; no multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether performance has been rising or holding steady over time.
The comparison data for the county includes only a small number of districts, so a formal peer ranking was not produced. The proficiency index comparison was flagged as inapplicable given the size of that set. What the raw results do convey, on their own terms, is a school where most children in the tested grades are reaching grade-level benchmarks, with math as a clear strength.
Program information was not included in the data available for Lehman, so specifics about enrichment, arts, or extracurricular offerings are not something we can describe here. A prospective family would want to ask the school about those directly.
The district context matters for anyone considering a move into the attendance zone. Miami-Dade Public Schools is publicly reported to be managing a sustained enrollment decline, and the district proposed closing or consolidating a number of schools across its regions in 2026. Families moving into the area should be aware that attendance boundaries can shift and grade configurations can change, particularly as the district weighs new K-8 and other restructured school models. Lehman is an elementary school currently, but the broader reconfiguration underway is worth tracking. Separately, a voter-approved property tax measure raised the school tax rate for homeowners in the district, a direct carrying cost that renews or expires in 2027 depending on a future vote.
Housing in the school's zip code reflects a premium over both state and Florida national norms, with typical home values well above the statewide median and rents running at a level that consumes a meaningful share of income for the average household. Both values have been essentially flat or slightly down year over year, which may reflect the broader county population softening publicly reported for 2025. For a family weighing the cost of living alongside school quality, the math is that this is an expensive zip code by most measures, though not outlier territory within the Miami metro's higher-cost corridors.
The school's location in southwestern Miami puts it at a comfortable remove from the density and traffic of downtown, in a part of the city that reads more suburban in feel even as it sits within the Miami-Dade footprint. Metrorail and the Metromover serve the broader metro, though access from this zip code to those systems is more car-dependent than it would be closer to the urban core.
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