MIAMI CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

MIAMI CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates as a moderately sized secondary school in MIAMI, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 1,414 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 37% bigger than typical.

MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; MIAMI CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, MIAMI CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 30% Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MIAMI CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. An estimated 64% 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MIAMI CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.2%, the actual is 37.4%, a residual of -11.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Miami-Dade County reports that median household income runs about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. MIAMI CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

COPE CENTER NORTH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MIAMI CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MIAMI CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 17%: 1,709 students in 2018 compared to 1,414 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 79% to 69% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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