MATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY

MATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY operates as a low-enrollment elementary campus in MIAMI, Florida, overseen by MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 367 students spanning grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 39% below typical.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. MATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, MATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at MATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.4%.

Across the wider county, Miami-Dade County reports that 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%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), MATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

SPORTS LEADERSHIP ARTS MANAGEMENT CHARTER 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. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 63.7%.

MATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY operates from an urban location. MATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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