CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL vs NORTH DADE CENTER FOR MODERN LANGUAGES

North Dade Center for Modern Languages sits at #7 of 3,777 Florida elementary schools while Crestview Elementary School ranks #283 — both strong placements, but a 276-position gap that reflects meaningfully different overall trajectories. On the 10-point composite scale, North Dade Center for Modern Languages scores 9.5 against Crestview Elementary School's 8.5, a full point separating two schools located just 2.0 miles apart in Miami Gardens.

The academic score gap drives most of that difference: North Dade Center for Modern Languages posts a 9.2 versus Crestview Elementary School's 7.6, a 1.6-point spread that signals substantially higher tested proficiency. Growth tells a tighter story — Crestview Elementary School scores 9.4 and North Dade Center for Modern Languages scores 9.7, a difference of just 0.3 points. That near-parity on growth means Crestview is accelerating students at a rate close to the state's best; the gap between the two schools is in absolute achievement levels, not momentum.

Crestview Elementary School enrolls 238 students at a 15.9:1 student-teacher ratio, while North Dade Center for Modern Languages serves 320 students at 13.9:1 — two fewer students per teacher on average. Crestview's free and reduced-price lunch rate is 72%, compared to 53% at North Dade Center for Modern Languages, a 19-point difference that reflects notably distinct family income distributions across two schools separated by two miles.

Crestview Elementary School serves grades PK through 5, giving families a prekindergarten entry point one year earlier than North Dade Center for Modern Languages, which begins at kindergarten. North Dade Center for Modern Languages carries a language-immersion focus embedded in its name and program identity, distinguishing its instructional model from Crestview's general elementary curriculum. That programmatic distinction — combined with the state rank of #7 — gives North Dade its clearest competitive edge beyond the raw score delta.