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Enrollment
1,213
High
DISTRICT 859 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000601
MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
1751 NW 36TH ST, MIAMI, FL 33142 · (305) 634-2621 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,213 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 20% of Florida public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
20.6:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 27.6:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
697 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 | 330 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 331 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 306 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 246 | 20% |
Student demographics
35%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
35.7%
FL avg 56.7% . +8.7pp since 2023
Math
43.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.7% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 36.0% |
% 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
41.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (41.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,213 | 57.5% | 41.5% |
| HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH HIALEAH | 1,367 | 56.5% | 34.6% |
| BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH MIAMI | 944 | 56.1% | 37.5% |
| JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL TAMPA | 1,310 | 56.9% | 40.2% |
| MIAMI SPRINGS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIAMI SPRINGS | 1,037 | 55.1% | 43.4% |
| MIAMI SOUTHRIDGE SENIOR HIGH MIAMI | 2,238 | 57.4% | 45.8% |
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 JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #465 of 555 | #78 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #251 of 549 ▲ 16 | #57 of 82 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.7% | #526 of 559 ▲ 23 | #79 of 85 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,213 | #356 of 830 | #35 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.6:1 | #185 of 575 | #28 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.1% | #509 of 594 | #36 of 91 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.5% | #134 of 630 | #31 of 98 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.1% | #51 of 289 | #22 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
1,213
-157 (-11%) vs 2020
-61% since 1990-91, when it was 3,089
Student : Teacher
20.6:1
was 19.9:1
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 | 1,213 | 59 | 20.6:1 | 57% (697) |
| 2023-24 | 1,290 | 55 | 23.4:1 | 63% (811) |
| 2022-23 | 1,305 | 63 | 20.7:1 | 63% (816) |
| 2020-21 | 1,370 | 69 | 19.9:1 | 97% (1,334) |
| 2017-18 | 1,558 | 76 | 20.5:1 | 82% (1,282) |
| 2015-16 | 1,581 | 80 | 19.8:1 | 93% (1,465) |
| 2010-11 | 1,209 | 72 | 16.8:1 | 91% (1,104) |
| 2000-01 | 2,562 | 129 | 19.9:1 | 52% (1,334) |
| 1990-91 | 3,089 | 159 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Located in MIAMI, Florida, MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized high school. The latest federal count shows 1,213 students in grades 9 through 12.
MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one school in a 527-school district, MIAMI-DADE, which enrolls 335,685 students.
At 78%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL combined. After that, the student body is 22% Black. Among all residents of Miami-Dade County, the Hispanic share is about 69%. By the diversity index, MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes in at 35%.
Federal staffing data show 59 full-time-equivalent teachers at MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and a ratio of 20.6:1. That ratio is under the 23.5:1 average for high schools in Florida. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 57% of students. The rate at public schools in Miami-Dade County averages 48%, lower than here.
allk12 grades MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL a C-. The grade compares the school only with Florida public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
On BeatsExpectations, MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 10.8 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Florida schools.
Miami-Dade County has about 2,738,356 residents, and median household income is about $71,753, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Miami-Dade County number 561 and enroll about 335,817.
MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's average proficiency of 41.5% compares with 42.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL had 1,370 students in 2020-21 and 1,213 in 2024-25, an 11% decrease.
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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
- MAYA ANGELOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 620
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS0.4 mi · 36
- KELSEY L. PHARR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 294
- EARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 371
- GEORGIA JONES AYERS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 448
- COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 597
Frequently asked questions
About MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow large is MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,213 students in grades 09-12.
Is MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 59 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.6:1.
What is the student diversity at MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 0% White, 78% Hispanic, 22% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.