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If you had an hour of school board time for BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
944
High
DISTRICT 859 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039003562
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH
1200 NW 6TH AVE, MIAMI, FL 33136 · (305) 324-8900 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL944 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 9% of Florida public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
17.5:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 27.6:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
530 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 | 213 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 257 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 246 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 228 | 24% |
Student demographics
43%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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
31.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.8pp since 2023
Math
34.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.2% | 34.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.4% | 36.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
37.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 53% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH's state test result (37.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH this school | 944 | 56.1% | 37.5% |
| MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIAMI | 1,213 | 57.5% | 41.5% |
| JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL TAMPA | 1,310 | 56.9% | 40.2% |
| AMERICAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL HIALEAH | 1,582 | 51.1% | 45.5% |
| HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH HIALEAH | 1,367 | 56.5% | 34.6% |
| LORENZO WALKER TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL NAPLES | 588 | 58.2% | 87.3% |
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 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #508 of 555 | #81 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #355 of 549 ▼ 87 | #65 of 82 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.2% | #551 of 559 ▲ 3 | #84 of 85 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 944 | #417 of 830 | #50 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #69 of 575 | #12 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.4% | #467 of 594 | #28 of 91 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.1% | #150 of 630 | #35 of 98 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.3% | #228 of 289 | #50 of 53 |
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
944
-26 (-3%) vs 2020
-30% since 2000-01, when it was 1,342
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 944 | 54 | 17.5:1 | 56% (530) |
| 2023-24 | 1,036 | 54 | 19.2:1 | 57% (586) |
| 2022-23 | 1,014 | 52 | 19.5:1 | 60% (607) |
| 2020-21 | 970 | 57 | 17.0:1 | 89% (867) |
| 2017-18 | 976 | 65 | 15.0:1 | 75% (729) |
| 2015-16 | 957 | 70 | 13.7:1 | 87% (832) |
| 2010-11 | 1,045 | 75 | 13.9:1 | 84% (883) |
| 2000-01 | 1,342 | 64 | 21.0:1 | 68% (912) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH.
About BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH is classified as a high school. It is located in MIAMI, Florida. School enrollment was 944 students in 2024-25, in grades 9 through 12.
The district, MIAMI-DADE, has 335,685 students enrolled across 527 schools.
Hispanic students make up a majority at BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH, at 69%. The next largest groups are 30% Black. The Hispanic share in Miami-Dade County as a whole is similar, at about 69%. Pick two students at random and there is a 43% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.5:1 at BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH, with 54 full-time-equivalent teachers. On average, high schools in Florida have 23.5:1, compared with 17.5:1 here. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 56% of enrollment.
allk12 grades BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH a D. The grade compares the school only with Florida public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH ranks in the bottom 10% of Florida schools. It scores 37.5%; the prediction is 53.0%.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH is located in Miami-Dade County, where the median household income is $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH is one of 561 public schools in the county.
The next-closest public school is THEODORE R. AND THELMA A. GIBSON CHARTER SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Over 4 years, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH's enrollment dropped 3%, to 944.
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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
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Other schools in MIAMI
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- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Nearby schools
- THEODORE R. AND THELMA A. GIBSON CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 168
- FREDERICK R. DOUGLASS ELEMENTARY0.3 mi · 187
- SECONDARY STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER 8020.6 mi · 16
- PHYLLIS WHEATLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 145
- CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER N0.7 mi · 37
- PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR K-8 CENTER0.7 mi · 373
Frequently asked questions
About BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGHWhat is the total enrollment at BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH?
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH enrolls approximately 944 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH serve?
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH is approximately 17.5:1 (54 FTE teachers).
How diverse is BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH?
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH reports a student body of 1% White, 69% Hispanic, 30% Black.
What district is BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH in?
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH is part of MIAMI-DADE.
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