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Enrollment
2,618
High
DISTRICT 859 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000605
MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
7431 SW 120TH ST, MIAMI, FL 33156 · (305) 235-1360 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL2,618 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of Florida public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
25.4:1
103 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 27.6:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
732 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 | 563 | 22% |
| Grade 10 | 682 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 690 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 683 | 26% |
Student demographics
54%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
65.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.1pp since 2023
Math
43.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 66 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.6% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.5% | 44.0% |
% 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
58.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (58.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 2,618 | 28.0% | 58.6% |
| WESTERN HIGH SCHOOL DAVIE | 3,510 | 27.5% | 58.1% |
| MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIAMI BEACH | 2,134 | 31.9% | 45.7% |
| ALONZO & TRACY MOURNING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIAMI | 1,633 | 32.5% | 44.0% |
| CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MIAMI | 3,399 | 26.9% | 80.3% |
| WEST BROWARD HIGH SCHOOL PEMBROKE PINES | 2,492 | 23.7% | 70.8% |
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 PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.6% | #188 of 555 | #38 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #252 of 549 ▼ 54 | #58 of 82 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.6% | #166 of 559 ▼ 15 | #36 of 85 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,618 | #56 of 830 | #8 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.4:1 | #475 of 575 | #65 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.0% | #349 of 594 | #9 of 91 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.0% | #497 of 630 | #72 of 98 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.8% | #193 of 289 | #45 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
2,618
-156 (-6%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 2,261
Student : Teacher
25.4:1
was 26.2:1
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 | 2,618 | 103 | 25.4:1 | 28% (732) |
| 2023-24 | 2,672 | 104 | 25.7:1 | 31% (834) |
| 2022-23 | 2,671 | 105 | 25.4:1 | 34% (898) |
| 2020-21 | 2,774 | 106 | 26.2:1 | 45% (1,260) |
| 2017-18 | 2,779 | 105 | 26.5:1 | 40% (1,117) |
| 2015-16 | 2,588 | 105 | 24.6:1 | 38% (994) |
| 2010-11 | 3,047 | 137 | 22.2:1 | 24% (743) |
| 2000-01 | 3,398 | 141 | 24.1:1 | 9% (308) |
| 1990-91 | 2,261 | 122 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school in MIAMI, Florida, under MIAMI-DADE. In all, 2,618 students attend the school in grades 9 through 12. That puts enrollment 153% bigger than the 1,035-student average for high schools in Florida.
A total of 527 schools make up MIAMI-DADE, with 335,685 students enrolled.
More than half of the students at MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are Hispanic (63%). The rest of enrollment is 22% White, 11% Black, and 2% Asian. The diversity index for MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 54%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 103 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 25.4:1. High schools in Florida average 23.5:1, 1.9 fewer students per teacher than here. MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 28%. Public schools in Miami-Dade County average 48%.
MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 57% of Florida public high schools.
Compared with Florida schools that have similar shares of low-income students, MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's results are 8.5 points below predicted: 58.6% against 67.2%.
American Community Survey estimates for Miami-Dade County show that median household income comes to about $71,753, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county's public schools total 561, with about 335,817 students.
The closest school to MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT PINECREST, located about 0.1 miles away. MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 8th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 58.6% against a local average of 76.8%.
Federal data place MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 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.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 2,618, from 2,774 in 2020-21.
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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
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
- MIAMI SOUTHRIDGE SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,238 students
Nearby schools
- TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT PINECREST0.1 mi · 278
- PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 654
- PALMETTO MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 715
- VINELAND K-8 CENTER1.0 mi · 671
- SOMERSET ACADEMY CONTINENTAL1.1 mi · 55
- HOWARD DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 341
Frequently asked questions
About MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 2,618 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 25.4:1 students per teacher at MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 22% White, 63% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in?
MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of MIAMI-DADE.
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