Student Enrollment
Miami-Dade County Public SchoolsStudent Enrollment as of Friday, October 05, 2012 is 346,397
total students. The breakdown of students are shown below.- Active students: 346,397
- Pre-K students: 7,344
- Part-time Students: 720
- Current adult/vocational students: 30,250
Pre-K : 1,773
Kindergarten :25,875
Grade 1 : 26,450
Grade 2 : 26,043
Grade 3 : 27,101
Grade 4 : 25,615
Grade 5 : 25,759
Grade 6 : 26,584
Grade 7 : 27,245
Grade 8 : 27,457
Grade 9 : 28,093
Grade 10 :27,683
Grade 11 :25,875
Grade 12 :24,844
The district is also the second-largest minority-majority public school system in the country. As of 2011, 65% of its students were of Hispanic origin (of any race), 25% Black, 9% Non-Hispanic White, 2% Asian and multiracial. Of the students enrolled in MDCPS, 54% spoke Spanish at home, 5% spoke Haitian Creole, and less than 1% spoke French and Portuguese at home. 45% of students were enrolled in bilingual Spanish language programs, and an additional 23% were enrolled in other bilingual programs in French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole.
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