SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY

Located at 13550 SW 256TH ST, in HOMESTEAD, Florida, SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY is a very small primary school that caters to 138 students (grades K through 5), part of MIAMI-DADE. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY sits 77% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY reports that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic; the rest comes out to 4% Black. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY logs 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 2% of students at SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.1%, the actual is 80.5%, a residual of +0.4 points.

In the broader community, Miami-Dade County reports that median household earnings sit near $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SOMERSET ACADEMY SILVER PALMS AT PRINCETON, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. SOUTH PREP SCHOLARS ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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