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DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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 middle schools
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 440 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 440 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 471 | 35% |
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 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 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 up about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.6% | 94.1% |
| 2023-24 | 86.0% | 92.9% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 91% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 69% 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 22 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
Schools most like DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (91.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,351 | 24.1% | 91.0% |
| HERBERT A. AMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 999 | 33.1% | 89.4% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL PEMBROKE PINES | 1,056 | 31.2% | 75.7% |
| ARVIDA MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 989 | 38.5% | 74.6% |
| SOUTHWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL PALMETTO BAY | 1,063 | 31.2% | 74.5% |
| SILVER TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL SOUTHWEST RANCHES | 1,187 | 24.9% | 67.8% |
Where DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 91.0% | #8 of 560 | #4 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 94.1% | #10 of 560 no change | #3 of 72 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.6% | #11 of 560 ▲ 1 | #6 of 72 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,351 | #23 of 584 | #2 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 33.8:1 | #543 of 547 | #67 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.6% | #530 of 553 | #47 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.1% | #503 of 565 | #67 of 72 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.6% | #54 of 137 | #6 of 13 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,351 | 40 | 33.8:1 | 24% (326) |
| 2023-24 | 1,414 | 34 | 41.6:1 | 40% (570) |
| 2022-23 | 1,381 | 41 | 33.7:1 | 28% (393) |
| 2020-21 | 1,418 | N/A | N/A | 49% (691) |
| 2017-18 | 1,189 | 67 | 17.8:1 | 48% (565) |
| 2015-16 | 1,179 | N/A | N/A | 54% (641) |
| 2010-11 | 1,000 | 43 | 23.3:1 | 51% (511) |
| 2000-01 | 663 | N/A | N/A | 30% (200) |
About DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the public schools in DORAL, Florida. It is a large middle school. It teaches 1,351 students in grades 6 through 8. That is 70% above the average of about 794 students for middle schools in Florida.
MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools with a combined 335,685 students. DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of them.
The share of students at DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL who are Hispanic is 93%. Smaller groups are 4% White. County-wide, 69% of Miami-Dade County residents are Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 13%.
On staff are 40 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 33.8:1. The average for middle schools in Florida is 19.6:1, so this school has more students per teacher. About 24% of students at DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Miami-Dade County report 48%.
Among Florida public middle schools, DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 98%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL beats its 69.1% prediction with 91.0%, a top-10% result in Florida.
In Miami-Dade County, home to about 2,738,356 people, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Miami-Dade County number 561, with about 335,817 students.
DORAL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY is the nearest public school to DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 81.4%, lower than DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL's 91.0%.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000. DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 5%.
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