# PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR K-8 CENTER

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120039000407`
- **School name**: PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR K-8 CENTER
- **Location**: MIAMI, FL 33127
- **Address**: 505 NW 20TH ST
- **District**: MIAMI-DADE (LEAID `1200390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 25.79607, -80.20336
- **Phone**: (305)438-9737

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 373
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: C

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 57.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 48.9% (161 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.2% (27 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.5% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.1% (73 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 37.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 61.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 67.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.7% — 42 students
- **English Learners**: 21.2% — 70 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 37 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,790
- **Federal share**: $2,999
- **State + local share**: $12,792
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,452,063
- **Federal share**: 19.5%
- **State share**: 23.3%
- **Local share**: 57.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,807,498

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $41,968
- **Poverty rate**: 37.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.6%
- **Unemployment**: 24.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $990
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.5 miles (CONTINENTAL CLEANERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 37
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.24 miles (FORMER FEC RAILYARD ALLAPATTAH)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MDWASA - MAIN SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.37928 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SECONDARY STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER 802** — 0.3 mi away, 7.14% (this school: 8.18%)
- **MIAMI ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.18%)
- **ENEIDA M. HARTNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 5.47% (this school: 8.18%)
- **CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER N** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.18%)
- **JOSE DE DIEGO MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 7.66% (this school: 8.18%)

### ela proficiency
- **MIAMI ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 78% (this school: 48%)
- **YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY** — 0.7 mi away, 63% (this school: 48%)
- **BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF GREATER MIAMI** — 0.7 mi away, 57% (this school: 48%)
- **FREDERICK R. DOUGLASS ELEMENTARY** — 0.8 mi away, 63.5% (this school: 48%)
- **MATER INTERNATIONAL PREPARATORY** — 0.8 mi away, 61% (this school: 48%)

### math proficiency
- **MIAMI ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 72% (this school: 41%)
- **ENEIDA M. HARTNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 55% (this school: 41%)
- **THEODORE R. AND THELMA A. GIBSON CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 47% (this school: 41%)
- **YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY** — 0.7 mi away, 56% (this school: 41%)
- **BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH** — 0.7 mi away, 49% (this school: 41%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/paul-laurence-dunbar-k-8-center-miami
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/paul-laurence-dunbar-k-8-center-miami/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/paul-laurence-dunbar-k-8-center-miami/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/paul-laurence-dunbar-k-8-center-miami/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/paul-laurence-dunbar-k-8-center-miami/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/paul-laurence-dunbar-k-8-center-miami/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/paul-laurence-dunbar-k-8-center-miami/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/paul-laurence-dunbar-k-8-center-miami/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/paul-laurence-dunbar-k-8-center-miami/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/paul-laurence-dunbar-k-8-center-miami/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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