INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 2480 SW 8TH ST, in MIAMI, Florida, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a tight-knit intermediate school that educates 320 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE. Enrollment runs roughly 60% leaner than the state mean of about 794.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 23% White, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Miami-Dade County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 52.7%; actual is 83.6%, +31.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

The closest other public school is INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 47.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 312 (now 320).

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