CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS

CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS is a senior high of micro-enrollment scale in MIAMI, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE, educateing 179 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 83% leaner than typical.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS lists that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.0%, the actual is 56.4%, a residual of -6.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household income runs about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 is one campus in the mix.

LINCOLN-MARTI CHARTER SCHOOL (LITTLE HAVANA CAMPUS) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS. On composite proficiency, CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 33%: 135 students in 2018 compared to 179 in 2025.

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