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Miami-Dade County · Florida

Miami, FL public schools

Enrollment, school count, staffing and per-pupil spending for Miami-Dade — federal education data, not a star rating.

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Quick answer

Miami-Dade is the primary public district for Miami, FL. It enrolls 334,090 students in 542 schools with 16,606 full-time-equivalent teachers, and spends $12,440 per pupil, 28% below the $17,320 median across the metros covered here.

Students enrolled
334,090NCES Common Core of Data, 2021-22
Schools in the district
542Operating school count
Students per teacher
20.1Enrollment ÷ FTE teachers, not class size
Spending per pupil
$12,440Total current expenditure, FY2020

Who pays for schools in Miami

Where the district's money comes from, FY2020.

Local revenue
56.2%
$2,430,012,000
State revenue
27.2%
$1,177,529,000
Federal revenue
16.6%
$717,310,000

Local revenue is mostly property tax, which is why the Miami property tax rate and school funding move together. Of every dollar spent, about 57 cents reaches instruction — teacher salaries, benefits and classroom materials — with the rest covering transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Reading the Miami numbers

What the 2021-22 NCES and FY2020 Census finance numbers say about this district.

$12,440 per pupil is 28% below the $17,320 metro median; only 13% of tracked districts spend less. Instruction takes 57 cents of each dollar — $7,128 per student — with the remainder on transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Funding is split roughly evenly — 56.2% local, 27.2% state — so both the local tax base and the FL aid formula matter to what this district can spend. Federal dollars are an outsized 16.6% of revenue, a share that tracks concentrated student poverty (Title I) and special-education enrollment.

334,090 students across 542 schools averages 616 students per building, and the district is larger than the typical district covered here (44,998 students). Staffing is thin relative to peers: 20.1 students per FTE teacher against a 15.2 median, 4.9 students more per teacher.

What this data covers

Read this before comparing districts.

Miami-Dade is a large city district; figures are the district total (LEAID 1200390) and individual schools inside it vary widely. Independently authorised charter schools, private schools and regional vocational programs are counted separately by NCES and are not in these totals. Enrollment is the 2021-22 NCES collection; dollars are the FY2020 Census F-33 survey, the latest complete national release. The two years differ, so per-pupil spending is a stable indicator rather than a live budget line.

Other Miami datasets on this site.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data + Census F-33, via Urban Institute Education Data · rates as published for 2021-22 / FY2020

NCES LEAID 1200390. Finance figures are Census Annual Survey of School System Finances (F-33) totals as redistributed by the Urban Institute Education Data API.