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Enrollment
1,109
High
DISTRICT 859 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039004339
MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER
5780 NW 158TH ST, MIAMI LAKES, FL 33014 · (305) 557-1100 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,109 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 92% of Florida public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
24.6:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 27.6:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
503 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 | 336 | 30% |
| Grade 10 | 282 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 225 | 20% |
| Grade 12 | 266 | 24% |
Student demographics
50%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
83.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 13 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.3% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 80.2% | 80.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
79.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% 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 21 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER
MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER's state test result (79.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER this school | 1,109 | 45.4% | 79.2% |
| DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 1,734 | 47.5% | 32.5% |
| MCARTHUR HIGH SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 1,866 | 44.2% | 39.5% |
| NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL OAKLAND PARK | 1,717 | 46.1% | 45.5% |
| SOUTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 1,693 | 47.5% | 30.4% |
| ROBERT MORGAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIAMI | 1,780 | 50.2% | 64.3% |
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 LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.2% | #57 of 555 | #19 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #76 of 549 ▼ 44 | #22 of 82 ▼ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.3% | #51 of 559 ▲ 2 | #19 of 85 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,109 | #377 of 830 | #40 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.6:1 | #431 of 575 | #61 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.2% | #401 of 594 | #18 of 91 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.4% | #302 of 630 | #49 of 98 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.9% | #104 of 289 | #34 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
1,109
+16 (+1%) vs 2020
+225% since 2000-01, when it was 341
Student : Teacher
24.6:1
was 22.8:1
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 | 1,109 | 45 | 24.6:1 | 45% (503) |
| 2023-24 | 1,071 | 42 | 25.5:1 | 51% (550) |
| 2022-23 | 1,025 | 43 | 23.8:1 | 61% (625) |
| 2020-21 | 1,093 | 48 | 22.8:1 | 81% (890) |
| 2017-18 | 1,288 | 54 | 23.9:1 | 70% (907) |
| 2015-16 | 1,501 | 58 | 25.9:1 | 79% (1,193) |
| 2010-11 | 1,586 | 74 | 21.4:1 | 65% (1,036) |
| 2000-01 | 341 | 21 | 16.2:1 | 64% (218) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER.
About MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER
MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER is a mid-sized high school with its address in MIAMI LAKES, Florida. Students in grades 9 through 12 make up the school's enrollment of 1,109 students.
The district, MIAMI-DADE, has 335,685 students enrolled across 527 schools.
The student body at MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER is 61% Hispanic. The school is also 35% Black. The Hispanic share of the county population is higher, at 69%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 50%.
On staff are 45 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 24.6:1. Statewide, high schools in Florida average 23.5:1. MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 45%.
On the allk12 Grade, MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER lands at A, ahead of 92% of Florida public high schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER would score about 58.4%. It scores 79.2%, a top-10% result among Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Miami-Dade County, home to about 2,738,356 people, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER shares Miami-Dade County with 560 other public schools.
MIAMI LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest public school to MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER, about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles of MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Federal data place MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (1,093) and 2024-25 (1,109). The school's ratio increased from 22.8:1 to 24.6:1 between 2020-21 and 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 LAKES
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
- BOB GRAHAM EDUCATION CENTERElementary · 1,404 students
- MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER AND TECHNICAL COLLEGEHigh
Nearby schools
- MIAMI LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 987
- HIVE PREPARATORY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 854
- MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER1.2 mi · 1,196
- NORTH GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 216
- JAN MANN EDUCATIONAL CENTER1.5 mi · 83
- HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH1.6 mi · 1,367
Frequently asked questions
About MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTERWhat is the total enrollment at MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER?
MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER enrolls approximately 1,109 students in grades 09-12.
Is MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER an elementary, middle, or high school?
MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER have?
MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 24.6:1.
What is the student diversity at MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER?
Student demographics at MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER are roughly 2% White, 61% Hispanic, 35% Black, 2% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER in?
MIAMI LAKES EDUCATIONAL CENTER is part of MIAMI-DADE.
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