SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES - SOUTH

Located at 11011 SW 104TH ST # T-301, in MIAMI, Florida, SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES - SOUTH is a very small 9-12 campus that teaches 290 students (grades 11 through 12), part of MIAMI-DADE. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES - SOUTH sits 72% below that benchmark.

SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES - SOUTH is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that enrolls 335,685 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES - SOUTH logs that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 8% White, 7% Asian, 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 36.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES - SOUTH higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 18% of students at SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES - SOUTH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) reports that median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES - SOUTH is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

The closest other public school is SOMERSET ACADEMY KENDALL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES - SOUTH's enrollment has expanded 25% since 2018, when it stood at 232 (now 290). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 18% to 8%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 36.3:1 today.

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