JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGH

As a sprawling four-year high school in MIAMI, Florida, JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGH serves 4,291 students from grades 9 through 12, run under MIAMI-DADE. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 315% above typical.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGH is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGH lists that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 161 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 38% of students at JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.1%, the actual is 66.6%, a residual of +4.5 points.

Around the school, Miami-Dade County reports that median household income runs about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGH is one.

The closest other public school is DR. MANUEL C. BARREIRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGH comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 70.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 4,408 students in 2018 compared to 4,291 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 26.6:1 today.

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