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Enrollment
2,973
High
DISTRICT 859 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039002988
BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH
14100 NW 89TH AVE, MIAMI LAKES, FL 33018 · (305) 362-0676 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 08–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL2,973 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of Florida public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public high schools
Student : Teacher
27.3:1
109 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 27.6:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
1,192 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 808 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 854 | 29% |
| Grade 11 | 758 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 553 | 19% |
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
70.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.2pp since 2023
Math
56.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.2% | 56.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.9% | 61.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
65.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH
BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH's state test result (65.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH this school | 2,973 | 40.1% | 65.7% |
| CORAL GABLES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CORAL GABLES | 2,894 | 40.5% | 52.8% |
| FELIX VARELA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIAMI | 1,935 | 40.5% | 50.0% |
| JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGH MIAMI | 4,291 | 38.1% | 66.6% |
| GOLDEN GATE HIGH SCHOOL NAPLES | 1,867 | 41.2% | 51.4% |
| GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 1,882 | 43.0% | 54.6% |
Matched among Florida high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.7% | #128 of 555 | #31 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #132 of 549 ▼ 42 | #35 of 82 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.2% | #116 of 559 ▲ 17 | #28 of 85 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,973 | #25 of 830 | #6 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 27.3:1 | #520 of 575 | #76 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.3% | #540 of 594 | #53 of 91 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.1% | #357 of 630 | #59 of 98 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +46.5% | #24 of 246 | #6 of 27 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
2,973
+224 (+8%) vs 2020
-35% since 2000-01, when it was 4,548
Student : Teacher
27.3:1
was 27.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 2,973 | 109 | 27.3:1 | 40% (1,192) |
| 2023-24 | 3,071 | 110 | 27.9:1 | 47% (1,435) |
| 2022-23 | 2,854 | 108 | 26.4:1 | 56% (1,597) |
| 2020-21 | 2,749 | 100 | 27.5:1 | 71% (1,961) |
| 2017-18 | 2,029 | 81 | 25.1:1 | 63% (1,269) |
| 2015-16 | 1,658 | 73 | 22.7:1 | 68% (1,130) |
| 2010-11 | 1,971 | 85 | 23.2:1 | 57% (1,124) |
| 2000-01 | 4,548 | 176 | 25.8:1 | 43% (1,961) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH.
About BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH
BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH is a high school with a street address in MIAMI LAKES, Florida. The school covers grades 8 through 12 and reported 2,973 students in 2024-25. High schools in Florida average about 1,035 students, which makes this school 187% larger than average.
The district, MIAMI-DADE, operates 527 schools serving 335,685 students.
Roughly 85% of students at BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH are Hispanic. The remaining students are 11% Black and 3% White. Among people living in Miami-Dade County, the Hispanic share is about 69%. The diversity index for BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH is 26%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 109 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 27.3:1. The average for high schools in Florida, 23.5:1, is lower. Roughly 40% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 48% for public schools in Miami-Dade County.
BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 80% of Florida public high schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH is 4.6 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 65.7% actual, 61.1% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Florida.
For the population of Miami-Dade County, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Across Miami-Dade County, 561 public schools serve about 335,817 students.
BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH's nearest public school is WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY (about 0.6 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH is 2nd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 8%, from 2,749 to 2,973.
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Miami-Dade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,738,356
Census ACS
Median income
$71,753
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
561
335,817 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- CORAL GABLES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,894 students
Other schools in MIAMI LAKES
- BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTERElementary · 1,404 students
- MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTERHigh · 1,109 students
- MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER AND TECHNICAL COLLEGEHigh
Nearby schools
- WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.6 mi · 594
- LINCOLN-MARTI CHARTER SCHOOL (HIALEAH CAMPUS)0.7 mi · 171
- CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY0.9 mi · 1,002
- ERNEST R. GRAHAM K-8 ACADEMY1.0 mi · 947
- HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 995
- YOUTH CO-OP CHARTER SCHOOL1.4 mi · 761
Frequently asked questions
About BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHow many students attend BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH?
BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH enrolls approximately 2,973 students in grades 08-12.
Is BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH an elementary, middle, or high school?
BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH is a high school covering grades 08-12.
How many teachers does BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH have?
BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH employs 109 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 27.3:1.
How diverse is BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH?
BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH reports a student body of 3% White, 85% Hispanic, 11% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH?
BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH is overseen by MIAMI-DADE in Miami-Dade County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.