EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH

EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH is a modestly sized elementary school in HIALEAH, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE. The school works with 287 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 52% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH lists that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.3%, the actual is 40.8%, a residual of +7.5 points.

In the broader community, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household earnings sit near $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH is one.

The closest other public school is HIALEAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH. On composite proficiency, EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH operates from a suburban location. EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF HIALEAH is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 10%: 260 students in 2018 compared to 287 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.