Key Biscayne K-8 school faces “death spiral” as enrollment and rankings plummet

Key Biscayne K-8 school faces “death spiral” as enrollment and rankings plummet

Key Biscayne’s public school is seeing attendance and academic performance plummet while funding spirals down, a crisis one official said could cause the island’s only public school to “die on the vine.” There is a trifecta of  troubling trends at the Key Biscayne K-8 Center: low enrollment, falling academic rankings and alarming test‑score drops — especially in middle school grades. Together,  they threaten the school’s future, according to a p…