MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY

MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY operates as a rural-scale senior high in HIALEAH GARDENS, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 315 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 70% smaller than the state mean of about 1,035.

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

Looking at the student body, MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY qualify 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.

After controlling for student poverty, MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 41.9%; actual is 84.5%, +42.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Miami-Dade County put median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 63.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 342 (now 315). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 31.1:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 today.

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