Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
Carol City Elementary School, Miami Gardens, FL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 308
- Teachers (FTE)
- 14.0
- Students per teacher
- 22.0
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 2.6 higher than the district figure of 19.4. The Florida average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 4375 NW 173rd Dr, Miami Gardens, FL 33055
- Phone
- (305)621-0509
- District
- Miami-Dade County Public Schools
- County
- Miami-Dade County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 120039000388
School meals
- Free lunch
- 235
- Reduced-price lunch
- 7
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 24278.6% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 235Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Miami-Dade County Public Schools
- Aventura Waterways K-8 Center 2,063 students
- Keys Gate Charter School 1,950 students
- Somerset Academy Silver Palms 1,890 students
- Norman S. Edelcup/Sunny Isles Beach K-8 1,729 students
- Citrus Grove K-8 Center 1,583 students
- Mater Academy 1,521 students
- Palm Springs North Elementary School 1,422 students
- Bob Graham Education Center 1,404 students
- Ruth K. Broad Bay Harbor K-8 Center 1,257 students
- David Lawrence Jr. K-8 Center 1,246 students
- Mater Grove Academy 1,233 students
- Miami Lakes K-8 Center 1,196 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.