PINECREST NORTH PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL
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 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 19 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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%.
About PINECREST NORTH PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL
PINECREST NORTH PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is one of the very small high schools in MIAMI, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE, with 204 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 80% below the state mean of about 1,035.
Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, PINECREST NORTH PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On demographics, PINECREST NORTH PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL records that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 68.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, PINECREST NORTH PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.1%; this one delivers 79.0%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), PINECREST NORTH PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is PINECREST NORTH PREPARATORY (FONTAINEBLEAU CAMPUS), roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PINECREST NORTH PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PINECREST NORTH PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 66.3%.
The campus sits in a residential setting. As a public charter, PINECREST NORTH PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
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