CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS)
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 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 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 37 points since 2023.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
About CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS)
Located at 103 EAST LUCY ST, in FLORIDA CITY, Florida, CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS) is a micro-enrollment high school that hosts 48 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by MIAMI-DADE. That puts it 95% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.
Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS) is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS) logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). The remainder consists of 13% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS) shows 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 56% of students at CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS) is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 53.0%; this one delivers 70.4%, a residual of +17.4 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household income runs about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS) is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: LINCOLN-MARTI SCHOOLS (INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS), around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS). Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS) at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 55.0%.
CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS) operates from a suburban location. CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS) operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
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