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NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH
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Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH
NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH is one of the moderately sized 9-12 campuss in NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Florida, part of MIAMI-DADE, with 1,075 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.
Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH is one campus in the system.
Demographically, NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH logs that the largest single group is Black, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 21% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.
On the resource side, The school reports having 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 40.4%, a residual of -11.7 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH is one.
The closest other public school is JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.6%.
NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH operates from a suburban location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 30%: 1,533 students in 2018 compared to 1,075 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, the feed for NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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