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If you could change one rule at PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
494
Middle
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039004075
PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
14901 SW 42ND ST, MIAMI, FL 33185 · (305) 559-8583 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL494 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 94% of Florida public middle 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
23.5:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
287 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 165 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 161 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 168 | 34% |
Student demographics
9%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
74.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.9pp since 2023
Math
81.3%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 6 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 | 74.3% | 81.3% |
| 2023-24 | 68.4% | 82.7% |
% 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
76.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% 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 24 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 PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (76.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 494 | 58.1% | 76.2% |
| W. R. THOMAS MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 507 | 55.2% | 49.9% |
| RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 479 | 53.9% | 57.6% |
| PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 483 | 52.4% | 55.9% |
| MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL CUTLER BAY | 518 | 52.7% | 86.1% |
| RUBEN DARIO MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 484 | 51.4% | 50.9% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.2% | #59 of 560 | #12 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.3% | #67 of 560 ▼ 14 | #14 of 72 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.3% | #61 of 560 ▲ 15 | #13 of 72 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 494 | #477 of 584 | #44 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.5:1 | #516 of 547 | #54 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.6% | #539 of 553 | #56 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.1% | #197 of 565 | #33 of 72 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.3% | #300 of 379 | #41 of 49 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
494
-3 (-1%) vs 2020
-40% since 2010-11, when it was 826
Student : Teacher
23.5:1
was 22.6:1
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 | 494 | 21 | 23.5:1 | 58% (287) |
| 2023-24 | 490 | 27 | 18.1:1 | 58% (282) |
| 2022-23 | 528 | 25 | 21.1:1 | 60% (319) |
| 2020-21 | 497 | 22 | 22.6:1 | 67% (335) |
| 2017-18 | 527 | 26 | 20.3:1 | 64% (338) |
| 2015-16 | 502 | 25 | 20.1:1 | 63% (316) |
| 2010-11 | 826 | 29 | 28.5:1 | 24% (202) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL
PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a low-enrollment middle-grades school in MIAMI, Florida, under MIAMI-DADE. The school has 494 students in 2024-25 across grades 6 through 8. That compares with an average of about 794 students for middle schools in Florida.
MIAMI-DADE counts 335,685 students in its 527 schools, and PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of them.
At PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, 96% of students are Hispanic. Other students are 2% White. That is higher than the 69% Hispanic share among all Miami-Dade County residents. The diversity index for PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is 9%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 23.5 students per teacher. The school's 23.5:1 compares with an average of 19.6:1 for middle schools in Florida. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 58% of the student body. The rate at public schools in Miami-Dade County averages 48%, lower than here.
PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 94% of Florida public middle schools.
PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Florida schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 76.2%. Predicted: 52.0%. Difference: 24.1 points.
In the surrounding county, Miami-Dade County, 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 has 561 public schools and about 335,817 students.
PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile from PINECREST PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, its nearest public school. PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 76.2% against a local average of 72.9%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. It is a charter school, open to the public and funded by taxpayers.
Enrollment went from 497 in 2020-21 to 494 in 2024-25, a change of 3 students.
This page is set up for the PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
- PINECREST PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 529
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGH0.5 mi · 2,291
- PINECREST PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.6 mi · 491
- ETHEL KOGER BECKHAM K-8 CENTER0.8 mi · 821
- ACADEMIR CHARTER SCHOOL WEST0.9 mi · 695
- JANE S. ROBERTS K-8 CENTER0.9 mi · 630
Frequently asked questions
About PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 494 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 23.5:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 96% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian.
Who oversees PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by MIAMI-DADE in Miami-Dade County.
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