MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in HIALEAH GARDENS, Florida, MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a sprawling middle school, part of MIAMI-DADE. It hosts 1,219 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 54% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest breaks down as 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MATER ACADEMY 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 39.1%; actual is 71.6%, +32.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, Miami-Dade County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 64.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting. MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 1,282 students in 2018 compared to 1,219 in 2025.

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