INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY

Located at 1570 MADRUGA AVE, in CORAL GABLES, Florida, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a micro-enrollment high school that works with 375 students (grades 9 through 12), part of MIAMI-DADE. Enrollment runs roughly 64% smaller than the state mean of about 1,035.

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

Looking at the student body, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Other groups include 11% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 83.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Miami-Dade County put the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH MIAMI CAMPUS), around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 76.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 370 students in 2018 compared to 375 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 18% to 11%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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