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MIAMI ARTS STUDIO 6-12 AT ZELDA GLAZER
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 68% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Florida's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MIAMI ARTS STUDIO 6-12 AT ZELDA GLAZER
MIAMI ARTS STUDIO 6-12 AT ZELDA GLAZER is a four-year high school of sizable scale in MIAMI, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE, hosting 1,799 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 74% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.
MIAMI ARTS STUDIO 6-12 AT ZELDA GLAZER is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that serves 335,685 students overall.
On demographics, MIAMI ARTS STUDIO 6-12 AT ZELDA GLAZER records that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. The remainder reads as 3% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, MIAMI ARTS STUDIO 6-12 AT ZELDA GLAZER logs 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting MIAMI ARTS STUDIO 6-12 AT ZELDA GLAZER tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 26% of students are eligible 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 below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MIAMI ARTS STUDIO 6-12 AT ZELDA GLAZER sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 68.4%; actual is 87.9%, +19.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), MIAMI ARTS STUDIO 6-12 AT ZELDA GLAZER is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is ACADEMIR CHARTER SCHOOL WEST, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MIAMI ARTS STUDIO 6-12 AT ZELDA GLAZER. On composite proficiency, MIAMI ARTS STUDIO 6-12 AT ZELDA GLAZER comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 72.2%.
MIAMI ARTS STUDIO 6-12 AT ZELDA GLAZER operates from a residential location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 16%: 1,547 students in 2018 compared to 1,799 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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