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However, in the next three decades, it only grew 8.2%, and by the time of the 2000 census, the city's population stood at 362,470. In the 2000s and 2010s, spurred by high-rise construction in Downtown Miami, Edgewater, and Brickell, Miami's population began to grow quickly once more. [9]
It was the eighth-most densely populated urbanized area in the United States as of the 2000 census. [6] As of the 2020 census, the Miami-Fort Lauderdale urbanized area had a land area of 1,244.18 square miles (3,222.4 km 2), with a population of 6,077,522, for a population density of 4,884.78 inhabitants per square mile (1,886.02/km 2).
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is the public school district serving Miami-Dade County in the U.S. state of Florida.Founded in 1885, it is the largest school district in Florida, the largest in the Southeastern United States, and the third-largest [4] in the United States [5] with a student enrollment of 356,589 as of August 30, 2021.
As part of the state's Accountability program, it grades a school by a complex formula that looks at both current scores and annual improvement on the Reading, Math, Writing and Science FCATs. These are the school's grades by the year since the FCAT began in 1998: [7] 1998–1999: D; 1999–2000: D; 2000–2001: D; 2001–2002: D (280 points)
The calendar for the 2024-25 school year is set. The first day of school in Miami-Dade schools will be Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024, and the final day of classes will be Thursday, June 5, 2025, the ...
Chicago Public Schools has long held the third rank, but according to the agency, housed within the federal Department of Education, Miami-Dade Public Schools enrollment this year reached a total ...
The county is home to several universities and colleges, including Florida International University, one of the largest public universities in the country, and the University of Miami in Coral Gables, a private research university that is routinely ranked as one of the nation's top universities and is the county's second-largest employer with ...
With five seats up for grabs in 2024 – and one board member already on DeSantis’ target list — the Miami-Dade School Board races could see candidates from different districts running to ...