MATER GARDENS ACADEMY

Set in HIALEAH, Florida, MATER GARDENS ACADEMY is a medium-sized elementary campus, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE. It hosts 803 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so MATER GARDENS ACADEMY sits 33% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), MATER GARDENS ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, MATER GARDENS ACADEMY shows that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 200.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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%.

With demographic context factored in, MATER GARDENS ACADEMY ranks in the top 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 52.2%; MATER GARDENS ACADEMY posts 75.9%, +23.6 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household earnings sit near $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which MATER GARDENS ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: MATER ACADEMY LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MATER GARDENS ACADEMY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. MATER GARDENS ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MATER GARDENS ACADEMY has expanded 35%, going from 596 students in 2018 to 803 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 200.8:1 in 2025.

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