ANDREA CASTILLO PREPARATORY ACADEMY

Located at 10201 NW 78TH ST, in DORAL, Florida, ANDREA CASTILLO PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a low-enrollment elementary-level community that instructs 412 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of MIAMI-DADE. That puts it 32% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, ANDREA CASTILLO PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, ANDREA CASTILLO PREPARATORY ACADEMY reports that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ANDREA CASTILLO PREPARATORY ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.0%; this one delivers 60.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) records that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), ANDREA CASTILLO PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

DORAL INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ANDREA CASTILLO PREPARATORY ACADEMY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

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