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BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH
As a well-populated senior high in MIAMI LAKES, Florida, BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH works with 2,973 students from grades 8 through 12, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 187% larger than typical.
Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). Beyond that, the school shows 11% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school employs 109 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 27.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 65.7%, a residual of +4.6 points.
Across the wider county, Miami-Dade County reports that median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).
WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH. On composite proficiency, BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 61.3%.
BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH operates from a bedroom-community location.
Looking at the recent track record. BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH's enrollment has expanded 47% since 2018, when it stood at 2,029 (now 2,973). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 27.3:1 today.
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