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Enrollment
1,219
Middle
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039004074
MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
7901 NW 103RD ST, HIALEAH GARDENS, FL 33016 · (305) 828-1886 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,219 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of Florida public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
25.9:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
1,023 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 389 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 422 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 408 | 33% |
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
64.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.6pp since 2023
Math
80.1%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.6% | 80.1% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 80.8% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+32.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 39% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 32 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (71.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,219 | 83.9% | 71.6% |
| IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL HIALEAH | 783 | 76.6% | 54.0% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 594 | 79.1% | 67.8% |
| IMMOKALEE MIDDLE SCHOOL IMMOKALEE | 1,402 | 71.4% | 51.4% |
| HENRY H. FILER MIDDLE SCHOOL HIALEAH | 732 | 71.9% | 42.0% |
| MATER ACADEMY LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL HIALEAH | 870 | 68.2% | 66.5% |
Matched among Florida middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.6% | #77 of 560 | #16 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.1% | #73 of 560 ▼ 12 | #15 of 72 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.6% | #152 of 560 ▼ 38 | #23 of 72 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,219 | #53 of 584 | #5 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.9:1 | #536 of 547 | #64 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.1% | #541 of 553 | #58 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.9% | #9 of 565 | #4 of 72 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.9% | #317 of 379 | #44 of 49 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,219
-29 (-2%) vs 2020
-8% since 2010-11, when it was 1,322
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,219 | 47 | 25.9:1 | 84% (1,023) |
| 2023-24 | 1,195 | 46 | 26.0:1 | 87% (1,038) |
| 2022-23 | 1,174 | 44 | 26.7:1 | 86% (1,010) |
| 2020-21 | 1,248 | N/A | N/A | 87% (1,091) |
| 2017-18 | 1,282 | 48 | 26.7:1 | 84% (1,078) |
| 2015-16 | 1,334 | 56 | 23.8:1 | 87% (1,154) |
| 2010-11 | 1,322 | 52 | 25.4:1 | 80% (1,052) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL runs as a large middle-grades school in HIALEAH GARDENS, Florida. Its grade span covers grades 6 through 8, with 1,219 students on the rolls. On average, middle schools in Florida enroll around 794, and this school is 54% larger than that mark.
Across its 527 schools, MIAMI-DADE enrolls 335,685 students. MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 96% Hispanic by enrollment. Next come 3% Black. That compares with about 69% Hispanic among all Miami-Dade County residents. The diversity index for MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 8%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 25.9:1. Middle schools in Florida have an average ratio of 19.6:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, 84% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Miami-Dade County average 48%.
On the allk12 Grade, MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 93% of Florida public middle schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 71.6%, is 32.5 points above the 39.1% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the top 10% of Florida schools.
In the surrounding county, Miami-Dade County, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, Miami-Dade County has 561 public schools.
MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY is less than a tenth of a mile from MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 64.9%, lower than MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL's 71.6%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.
The school's size has been steady, with 1,248 students in 2020-21 and 1,219 in 2024-25.
This page collects posts and questions about MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, such as fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Miami-Dade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,738,356
Census ACS
Median income
$71,753
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
561
335,817 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in HIALEAH GARDENS
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- MATER ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,611 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,551 students
- MATER ACADEMYElementary · 1,521 students
- WEST HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,128 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 995 students
Nearby schools
- MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY0.0 mi · 315
- MATER ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 1,611
- MATER ACADEMY0.5 mi · 1,521
- JOSE MARTI MAST 6-12 ACADEMY0.5 mi · 1,008
- BEN SHEPPARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 927
- CITRUS HEALTH SIPP/CRISIS0.6 mi · 16
Frequently asked questions
About MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,219 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 25.9:1 (47 FTE teachers).
How diverse is MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 1% White, 96% Hispanic, 3% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.