IMATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL

IMATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL, a moderately sized secondary school in HIALEAH, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE, teaches 994 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; IMATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, IMATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), IMATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.9%; this one delivers 50.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) logs that 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 IMATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IMATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.7%.

IMATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL operates from a suburban location. As a public charter, IMATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 24%: 799 students in 2018 compared to 994 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 28.5:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for IMATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.