About Miami-Dade School District
Miami-Dade School District is a public school system serving Miami-Dade County, Florida, based in Miami. It serves 333,233 students across 530 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #1 largest of Florida’s 82 school systems.
Size and structure
Miami-Dade School District enrolls 333,233 students in 530 schools — an average of about 629 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #1 of 82 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Miami-Dade School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (333,233 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Miami-Dade School District employs about 17,139 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 19.4:1 — above the Florida average of about 18.3:1. Total district staff is roughly 35,539.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Florida funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Miami-Dade School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Florida assigns A–F grades to every school and district from achievement and learning gains in English language arts, math and science, the gains of the lowest-performing quartile, graduation rate and college-and-career acceleration. Look up Miami-Dade School District’s grade on the Florida school grades page.
Accreditation status
Most Florida districts are accredited through Cognia (via its SACS CASI division), which accredits whole district “systems” as well as individual schools. Look up Miami-Dade School District in the free Cognia registry.
Miami-Dade School District vs. Florida
See every Florida district side by side in the Florida directory.
Look up Miami-Dade School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):