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MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
About MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in NORTH MIAMI, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE, instructs 664 students, covering grades K through 5.
Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 24% White, 5% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Miami-Dade County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.4%, the actual is 74.7%, a residual of +2.3 points.
In the broader community, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household income runs about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).
Nearest neighbor: MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 55.8%.
MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location. MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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