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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at I PREPARATORY ACADEMY this year?
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Enrollment
781
Combined
DISTRICT 384 · STATE 353
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039007855
I PREPARATORY ACADEMY
1500 BISCAYNE BLVD, MIAMI, FL 33132 · (305) 995-1928 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL781 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Florida public K-12 schools
- 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 K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 17.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
172 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 63 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 66 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 68 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 62 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 66 | 8% |
| Grade 9 | 37 | 5% |
| Grade 10 | 28 | 4% |
| Grade 11 | 17 | 2% |
| Grade 12 | 48 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (66).
Student demographics
57%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
93.8%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.7pp since 2023
Math
84.8%
FL avg 58.9% . -12.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 12 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.8% | 84.8% |
| 2023-24 | 93.1% | 97.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
92.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 93% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 70% 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%.
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 I PREPARATORY ACADEMY
I PREPARATORY ACADEMY's state test result (92.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| I PREPARATORY ACADEMY this school | 781 | 22.0% | 92.6% |
| BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF VILLAGE GREEN MIAMI | 856 | 25.4% | 65.4% |
| P.K. YONGE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL GAINESVILLE | 1,363 | 27.4% | 79.9% |
| BLUE LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 348 | 37.9% | 62.7% |
| PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT WEST MELBOURNE WEST MELBOURNE | 832 | 30.2% | 66.5% |
| SURFSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL PANAMA CITY BEACH | 755 | 34.2% | 62.0% |
Matched among Florida K-12 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 I PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.6% | #3 of 25 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.8% | #4 of 25 ▼ 1 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.8% | #3 of 25 no change | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 781 | #13 of 180 | #2 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.6:1 | #32 of 40 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.8% | #21 of 42 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.0% | #69 of 74 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.7% | #22 of 24 | N/A |
Ranked against other public K-12 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
781
-118 (-13%) vs 2020
+1675% since 2010-11, when it was 44
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 781 | 42 | 18.6:1 | 22% (172) |
| 2023-24 | 824 | 43 | 19.2:1 | 27% (225) |
| 2022-23 | 797 | 47 | 17.0:1 | 28% (220) |
| 2020-21 | 899 | 53 | 17.0:1 | 36% (321) |
| 2017-18 | 828 | 49 | 16.9:1 | 36% (294) |
| 2015-16 | 679 | 40 | 17.0:1 | 42% (282) |
| 2010-11 | 44 | 3 | 14.7:1 | 52% (23) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for I PREPARATORY ACADEMY.
About I PREPARATORY ACADEMY
I PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a high-enrollment school serving multiple grade levels in Florida, with an address in MIAMI. It has an enrollment of 781 students in pre-K through 12. Combined schools in Florida average about 353 students, which makes this school 121% above average.
I PREPARATORY ACADEMY belongs to MIAMI-DADE, a district of 527 schools and 335,685 students.
The student body at I PREPARATORY ACADEMY is 61% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 20% White, 10% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.
I PREPARATORY ACADEMY reported 42 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 18.6:1. Combined schools in Florida average 17.7:1, 0.9 fewer students per teacher than here. There are 172 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 22% of enrollment. On average, public schools in Miami-Dade County report 48%.
I PREPARATORY ACADEMY earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 96% of Florida public K-12 schools.
A school in Florida with I PREPARATORY ACADEMY's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 70.1%. I PREPARATORY ACADEMY scores 92.6%.
In the surrounding county, Miami-Dade County, median household income comes to about $71,753, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county's public schools total 561, with about 335,817 students.
MIAMI-DADE ONLINE ACADEMY- VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM is about 0.1 miles from I PREPARATORY ACADEMY, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, I PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks 1st in a group of 6 nearby schools.
I PREPARATORY ACADEMY is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
The school's student count fell 13% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 17.0:1 to 18.6:1.
I PREPARATORY ACADEMY has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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
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- 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 MIAMI
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Nearby schools
- MIAMI-DADE ONLINE ACADEMY- VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM0.1 mi · 297
- CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER N0.3 mi · 37
- BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF GREATER MIAMI0.4 mi · 388
- PHYLLIS WHEATLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 145
- THEODORE R. AND THELMA A. GIBSON CHARTER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 168
- FREDERICK R. DOUGLASS ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 187
Frequently asked questions
About I PREPARATORY ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at I PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
I PREPARATORY ACADEMY enrolls approximately 781 students in grades PK-12.
What grades does I PREPARATORY ACADEMY serve?
I PREPARATORY ACADEMY serves grades PK-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at I PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at I PREPARATORY ACADEMY is approximately 18.6:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at I PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
At I PREPARATORY ACADEMY, the student body is approximately 20% White, 61% Hispanic, 10% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees I PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
I PREPARATORY ACADEMY is overseen by MIAMI-DADE in Miami-Dade County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.