MATER LAKES COLLEGIATE ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL

MATER LAKES COLLEGIATE ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL, a tight-knit 6-8 campus in MIAMI, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE, enrolls 332 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 58% smaller than typical.

MATER LAKES COLLEGIATE ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that caters to 335,685 students overall.

Demographically, MATER LAKES COLLEGIATE ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). Beyond that, the school logs 2% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 36.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at MATER LAKES COLLEGIATE ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MATER LAKES COLLEGIATE ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.5%, the actual is 61.2%, a residual of +13.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), MATER LAKES COLLEGIATE ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MATER LAKES COLLEGIATE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL 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. On composite proficiency, MATER LAKES COLLEGIATE ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. MATER LAKES COLLEGIATE ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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