EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY

EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a middle school of tight-knit scale in HOMESTEAD, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE, works with 374 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 794.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). The remainder breaks down as 11% Black. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 51.9%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Miami-Dade County put the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, 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 is one.

EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL 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. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EVERGLADES PREPARATORY ACADEMY has declined 27%, going from 510 students in 2018 to 374 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 9% to 2% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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