MATER ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY

Located at 998 SW 1ST ST, in MIAMI, Florida, MATER ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY is a tiny four-year high school that caters to 20 students (grades 6 through 12), run under MIAMI-DADE. Enrollment runs roughly 98% below the state mean of about 1,035.

MATER ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that serves 335,685 students overall.

In terms of who attends, MATER ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, MATER ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY shows 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.0:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MATER ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 38.6%; actual is 97.5%, +58.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household income runs about $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), MATER ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MATER ACADEMY KIWANIS, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MATER ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 58.5%.

The school occupies an urban site. As a public charter, MATER ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 6 years. MATER ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY's enrollment has decreased 92% since 2018, when it stood at 249 (now 20).

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