1
What's the biggest difference between HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH and what you expected?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
1,367
High
DISTRICT 859 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000592
HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH
7977 W 12TH AVE, HIALEAH, FL 33014 · (305) 823-1330 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,367 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 4% of Florida public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 27.6:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
773 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 341 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 363 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 330 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 333 | 24% |
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
34.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.2pp since 2023
Math
31.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.6% | 31.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.4% | 27.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 53% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH
HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH's state test result (34.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH this school | 1,367 | 56.5% | 34.6% |
| MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIAMI | 1,213 | 57.5% | 41.5% |
| MIAMI SPRINGS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIAMI SPRINGS | 1,037 | 55.1% | 43.4% |
| FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 1,923 | 56.7% | 44.1% |
| LETO HIGH SCHOOL TAMPA | 1,995 | 56.8% | 45.3% |
| EAST LEE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL LEHIGH ACRES | 2,129 | 56.5% | 28.6% |
Matched among Florida high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.6% | #534 of 555 | #85 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #398 of 549 ▼ 36 | #71 of 82 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.6% | #535 of 559 ▲ 7 | #82 of 85 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,367 | #327 of 830 | #32 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.7:1 | #195 of 575 | #29 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.5% | #526 of 594 | #45 of 91 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.5% | #144 of 630 | #33 of 98 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.5% | #94 of 289 | #31 of 53 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,367
-101 (-7%) vs 2020
-57% since 1990-91, when it was 3,172
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
was 19.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,367 | 66 | 20.7:1 | 57% (773) |
| 2023-24 | 1,353 | 62 | 21.8:1 | 61% (819) |
| 2022-23 | 1,344 | 66 | 20.4:1 | 68% (913) |
| 2020-21 | 1,468 | 76 | 19.3:1 | 85% (1,249) |
| 2017-18 | 1,599 | 88 | 18.2:1 | 80% (1,277) |
| 2015-16 | 1,695 | 92 | 18.4:1 | 86% (1,460) |
| 2010-11 | 1,850 | 109 | 17.0:1 | 79% (1,453) |
| 2000-01 | 3,355 | 139 | 24.1:1 | 33% (1,099) |
| 1990-91 | 3,172 | 149 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH.
About HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH
HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH is a mid-sized high school in HIALEAH, Florida. It teaches 1,367 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, high schools in Florida enroll about 1,035 students on average.
HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH is one of 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE, which enrolls 335,685 students in total.
Hispanic students are 81% of those enrolled at HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH. Other reported shares: 17% Black. That compares with about 69% Hispanic among all Miami-Dade County residents. A diversity index of 32% means there is a 32% chance two randomly chosen students at HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH are from different groups.
For every teacher at HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH, there are about 20.7 students; the school has 66 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 23.5:1 average for high schools in Florida, this school's ratio is lower. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 57%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Miami-Dade County is 48%.
On the allk12 Grade, HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH lands at F, ahead of 4% of Florida public high schools.
HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH is a bottom-10% school in Florida on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 34.6% against a predicted 52.8%.
The school's county is Miami-Dade County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $71,753, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 561 public schools in the county, enrolling about 335,817, HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH among them.
HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH is about 0.5 miles from MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 34.6% is below the 55.0% average for nearby schools.
Federal data place HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 1,468 to 1,367, a 7% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 19.3:1 to 20.7:1.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Miami-Dade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,738,356
Census ACS
Median income
$71,753
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
561
335,817 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in HIALEAH
- HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- AMERICAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,582 students
- PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,422 students
- MATER ACADEMY LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,201 students
- MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTERElementary · 1,196 students
- WESTLAND HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,191 students
Nearby schools
- MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER0.5 mi · 1,196
- PALM LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 574
- NORTH TWIN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 590
- TWIN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 325
- YOUTH CO-OP CHARTER SCHOOL1.2 mi · 761
- YOUTH CO-OP PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 240
Frequently asked questions
About HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGHWhat is the total enrollment at HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH?
HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH enrolls approximately 1,367 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH serve?
HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH have?
HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH employs 66 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.7:1.
What is the student diversity at HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH?
Student demographics at HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH are roughly 2% White, 81% Hispanic, 17% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH in?
HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH is part of MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.