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Enrollment
586
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039007922
MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH)
8625 BYRON AVE, MIAMI, FL 33141 · (305) 864-2889 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL586 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 74% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
365 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 62 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 40 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 55% larger than its 8th grade class (40).
Student demographics
33%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
62.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
71.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 71.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 61.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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%.
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 (MIAMI BEACH)
MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH)'s state test result (62.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) this school | 586 | 62.3% | 62.0% |
| BAY CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 572 | 62.4% | 32.1% |
| MORGAN WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 522 | 64.6% | 37.9% |
| WOODBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 602 | 62.8% | 35.5% |
| ENGELWOOD ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 557 | 64.1% | 40.8% |
| HECTOR A. CAFFERATA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAPE CORAL | 606 | 60.6% | 48.2% |
Matched among Florida elementary 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 (MIAMI BEACH) ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #773 of 2,136 | #120 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #608 of 2,149 ▲ 297 | #103 of 279 ▲ 38 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #747 of 2,149 ▲ 186 | #113 of 279 ▲ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 586 | #1,076 of 2,267 | #106 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #1,051 of 2,077 | #111 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.7% | #1,800 of 2,108 | #101 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.3% | #818 of 2,188 | #108 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.1% | #390 of 621 | #41 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
586
-34 (-5%) vs 2020
+140% since 2010-11, when it was 244
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 | 586 | 37 | 15.8:1 | 62% (365) |
| 2023-24 | 594 | 33 | 18.0:1 | 66% (391) |
| 2022-23 | 614 | 34 | 18.1:1 | 66% (403) |
| 2020-21 | 620 | N/A | N/A | 70% (432) |
| 2017-18 | 547 | 28 | 19.5:1 | 67% (368) |
| 2015-16 | 575 | N/A | N/A | 67% (388) |
| 2010-11 | 244 | 12 | 20.3:1 | 60% (147) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH).
About MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH)
The public elementary school MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) is located in MIAMI, Florida. The school offers kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 586 students.
MIAMI-DADE counts 335,685 students in its 527 schools, and MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) is one of them.
A large majority of enrollment at MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) is Hispanic, at 80%. The school is also 16% White. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 69%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) scores 33%.
Classroom staffing at MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) totals 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.8:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida, 17.5:1, is higher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) is about 62%. The average for public schools in Miami-Dade County is 48%.
MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 74% of Florida public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH), the prediction is 50.0% and the result is 62.0%.
In the wider Miami-Dade County area, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) shares Miami-Dade County with 560 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) is closest to BISCAYNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) ranks 6th of 9 nearby schools, at 62.0% versus a 69.6% average.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000. MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) is a publicly funded charter school.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 34 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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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
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- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
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- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in MIAMI
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Nearby schools
- BISCAYNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 525
- RUTH K. BROAD BAY HARBOR K-8 CENTER1.1 mi · 1,257
- TREASURE ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 412
- MAST@FIU2.7 mi · 489
- MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL3.0 mi · 308
- MATER BISCAYNE ACADEMY NORTH MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL3.0 mi · 566
Frequently asked questions
About MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH)What is the total enrollment at MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH)?
MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) enrolls approximately 586 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) serve?
MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many teachers does MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) have?
MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.8:1.
What is the student diversity at MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH)?
Student demographics at MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) are roughly 16% White, 80% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) public or private?
MATER ACADEMY (MIAMI BEACH) is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
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