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DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
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 86 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 have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 68% 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 19 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL operates as a high-enrollment 9-12 campus in DORAL, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 2,073 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL sits 100% above that benchmark.
DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that hosts 335,685 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%); the rest comes out to 4% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL shows 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 28.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 26% of students at DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 67.9%; actual is 86.6%, +18.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, 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), DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
DORAL PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 82.1%.
DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL operates from an urban location. As a public charter, DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL has rose 24%, going from 1,673 students in 2018 to 2,073 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 28.0:1 today.
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