# DR. EDWARD L. WHIGHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120039003049`
- **School name**: DR. EDWARD L. WHIGHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: CUTLER BAY, FL 33189
- **Address**: 21545 SW 87TH AVE
- **District**: MIAMI-DADE (LEAID `1200390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 25.56475, -80.33046
- **Phone**: (305)234-4840

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 731
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 49
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 53.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.1% (134 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 25.9% (180 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 71.4%
- **Black/African American**: 2.7%
- **Asian**: 19.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 58.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.4% — 128 students
- **English Learners**: 19.0% — 132 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,102
- **Federal share**: $2,447
- **State + local share**: $12,656
### 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**: $59,248
- **Poverty rate**: 11.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.8%
- **Unemployment**: 0.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,687
- **Foreign-born residents**: 46.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.7 miles (HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.76 miles (PARKING LOT AND EASEMENT 225 227 NE 79 ST)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.29318 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **MATER ACADEMY BAY ELEMENTARY** — 0.3 mi away, 81.5% (this school: 63.5%)
- **MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 85% (this school: 63.5%)
- **MATER ACADEMY BAY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 76% (this school: 63.5%)
- **CUTLER BAY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 82% (this school: 63.5%)
- **WHISPERING PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 80.5% (this school: 63.5%)

### math proficiency
- **MATER ACADEMY BAY ELEMENTARY** — 0.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 63%)
- **MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 91% (this school: 63%)
- **MATER ACADEMY BAY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 70% (this school: 63%)
- **CUTLER BAY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 74% (this school: 63%)
- **GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 63%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dr-edward-l-whigham-elementary-school-cutler-bay
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dr-edward-l-whigham-elementary-school-cutler-bay/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dr-edward-l-whigham-elementary-school-cutler-bay/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dr-edward-l-whigham-elementary-school-cutler-bay/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dr-edward-l-whigham-elementary-school-cutler-bay/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dr-edward-l-whigham-elementary-school-cutler-bay/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dr-edward-l-whigham-elementary-school-cutler-bay/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dr-edward-l-whigham-elementary-school-cutler-bay/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dr-edward-l-whigham-elementary-school-cutler-bay/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dr-edward-l-whigham-elementary-school-cutler-bay/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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