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What's the one class at MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
617
High
DISTRICT 859 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000600
MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
6161 NW 5TH CT, MIAMI, FL 33127 · (305) 751-7337 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL617 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 37% of Florida public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public high schools
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 27.6:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
370 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 150 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 171 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 151 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 145 | 24% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
35.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.5pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.5% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.9% | 46.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (45.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 617 | 60.0% | 45.7% |
| INLET GROVE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL RIVIERA BEACH | 714 | 59.1% | 60.9% |
| NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH NORTH MIAMI BEACH | 1,075 | 58.0% | 40.4% |
| MIAMI CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIAMI | 1,414 | 63.8% | 37.4% |
| MIAMI CAROL CITY SENIOR HIGH MIAMI GARDENS | 859 | 67.1% | 47.2% |
| AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 1,388 | 57.4% | 33.0% |
Matched among Florida high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #394 of 555 | #67 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #258 of 549 ▼ 79 | #60 of 82 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #529 of 559 ▲ 3 | #80 of 85 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 617 | #465 of 830 | #56 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #72 of 575 | #13 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.9% | #460 of 594 | #27 of 91 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.0% | #99 of 630 | #24 of 98 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.1% | #91 of 289 | #30 of 53 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
617
-83 (-12%) vs 2020
-76% since 1990-91, when it was 2,591
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 16.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 617 | 35 | 17.6:1 | 60% (370) |
| 2023-24 | 631 | 39 | 16.2:1 | 65% (409) |
| 2022-23 | 623 | 39 | 16.0:1 | 72% (449) |
| 2020-21 | 700 | 43 | 16.3:1 | 91% (639) |
| 2017-18 | 727 | 52 | 14.0:1 | 78% (570) |
| 2015-16 | 800 | 57 | 14.0:1 | 83% (664) |
| 2010-11 | 892 | 69 | 12.9:1 | 87% (779) |
| 2000-01 | 2,305 | 114 | 20.2:1 | 49% (1,125) |
| 1990-91 | 2,591 | 129 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates as a small high school in MIAMI, Florida. It reported 617 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 1,035 students for high schools in Florida.
Besides MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, MIAMI-DADE runs 526 other schools. The district enrolls 335,685 students.
The student body at MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 69% Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 29% Hispanic. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 15%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 44%.
The school has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 17.6 students per teacher. The average for high schools in Florida is 23.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. The school reported 60% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Across public schools in Miami-Dade County, the average is 48%.
MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 37% of Florida public high schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 51.1% for MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. The school posts 45.7%, 5.4 points below the prediction.
The school is in Miami-Dade County, where the median household earns about $71,753 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL shares Miami-Dade County with 560 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, EDISON PARK K-8 CENTER is about 0.3 miles from MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. The five-mile area around MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 48.4%, higher than MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's 45.7%.
In the federal locale system, MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 617, down from 700 in 2020-21. Students per teacher increased from 16.3 in 2020-21 to 17.6 in 2024-25.
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Miami-Dade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,738,356
Census ACS
Median income
$71,753
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
561
335,817 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in MIAMI
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Nearby schools
- EDISON PARK K-8 CENTER0.3 mi · 441
- ITECH@THOMAS A EDISON EDUCATIONAL CENTER0.3 mi · 230
- THENA CROWDER EARLY CHILDHOOD DIAGNOSTIC SPECIAL EDUCATION0.4 mi · 69
- TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 382
- MIAMI NORTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH0.7 mi · 1,479
- HOLMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 395
Frequently asked questions
About MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 617 students in grades 09-12.
Is MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.6:1.
How diverse is MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 1% White, 29% Hispanic, 69% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
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