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NORTH MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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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 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NORTH MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
NORTH MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a 9-12 campus of expansive scale in NORTH MIAMI, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE, caters to 1,748 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 69% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.
Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, NORTH MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, NORTH MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (81%); the rest breaks down as 17% Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.1:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
With demographic context factored in, NORTH MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of -10.0 points.
In the area at large, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.
NORTH MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NORTH MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.5%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Five-year trend. NORTH MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 29% since 2018, when it stood at 2,464 (now 1,748). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 today.
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