RENAISSANCE MIDDLE CHARTER SCHOOL

Set in DORAL, Florida, RENAISSANCE MIDDLE CHARTER SCHOOL is a compact junior high, part of MIAMI-DADE. It enrolls 391 students across grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 51% smaller than typical.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), RENAISSANCE MIDDLE CHARTER SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, RENAISSANCE MIDDLE CHARTER SCHOOL logs that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 3% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting RENAISSANCE MIDDLE CHARTER SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RENAISSANCE MIDDLE CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.1%, the actual is 59.3%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Miami-Dade County shows 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. RENAISSANCE MIDDLE CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

The closest other public school is BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF MIAMI DADE, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RENAISSANCE MIDDLE CHARTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, RENAISSANCE MIDDLE CHARTER SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 76.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. RENAISSANCE MIDDLE CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 421 students in 2018 compared to 391 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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