EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL

EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is an intimate senior high in HOMESTEAD, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE. The school enrolls 464 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 55% below the state mean of about 1,035.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Beyond that, the school shows 7% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 51% of students at EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.8%; this one delivers 53.6%.

Around the school, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household income runs about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is one.

EVERGLADES PREPARATORY 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. On composite proficiency, EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. As a public charter, EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 14% since 2018, when it stood at 542 (now 464). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 82% to 89%.

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