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Enrollment
873
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000520
SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY
45 SW 13TH ST, MIAMI, FL 33130 · (305) 371-3311 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL873 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
292 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 38 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 110 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 111 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 79 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 96 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 64 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 13% larger than its 8th grade class (64).
Student demographics
39%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY→BOOKER T. WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
62.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.4pp since 2023
Math
66.7%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.5% | 66.7% |
| 2023-24 | 57.1% | 66.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
58.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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%.
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 SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY
SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY's state test result (58.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY this school | 873 | 33.4% | 58.8% |
| HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE TAMPA | 819 | 31.7% | 62.0% |
| SUNSHINE ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 1,015 | 35.6% | 39.9% |
| CORAL GABLES PREPARATORY ACADEMY CORAL GABLES | 812 | 27.2% | 73.4% |
| DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 818 | 37.7% | 70.0% |
| CORAL REEF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALMETTO BAY | 696 | 28.3% | 78.8% |
Matched among Florida elementary 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 SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.8% | #929 of 2,136 | #140 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.7% | #793 of 2,149 ▼ 133 | #135 of 279 ▼ 28 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #725 of 2,149 ▲ 120 | #108 of 279 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 873 | #343 of 2,267 | #44 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #1,372 of 2,077 | #155 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.6% | #1,698 of 2,108 | #80 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.4% | #1,740 of 2,188 | #235 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.4% | #343 of 621 | #37 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
873
-59 (-6%) vs 2020
+126% since 1990-91, when it was 387
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 873 | 52 | 16.8:1 | 33% (292) |
| 2023-24 | 937 | 51 | 18.4:1 | 38% (357) |
| 2022-23 | 929 | 56 | 16.6:1 | 39% (366) |
| 2020-21 | 932 | 60 | 15.5:1 | 58% (538) |
| 2017-18 | 798 | 51 | 15.7:1 | 56% (446) |
| 2015-16 | 769 | 50 | 15.4:1 | 62% (480) |
| 2010-11 | 604 | 36 | 16.8:1 | 63% (379) |
| 2000-01 | 429 | 26 | 16.5:1 | 90% (386) |
| 1990-91 | 387 | 26 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY.
About SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY
SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a mid-sized elementary school found in MIAMI, Florida. The school counted 873 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 8. It has 45% more students than the average for elementary schools in Florida (about 604).
MIAMI-DADE has 527 schools and 335,685 students, and SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of those schools.
Federal enrollment data show SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY is 76% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 17% White, 3% Black, and 2% Asian. A diversity index of 39% means there is a 39% chance two randomly chosen students at SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY are from different groups.
Its ratio of 16.8:1 is based on 52 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. In all, 33% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Miami-Dade County average 48%.
On the allk12 Grade, SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY lands at C+, ahead of 41% of Florida public elementary schools.
SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 58.8%, compared with a predicted 64.4%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
American Community Survey estimates for Miami-Dade County show that the median household earns about $71,753 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Miami-Dade County has 561 public schools with about 335,817 students, including SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY.
MATER BRICKELL ACADEMY MIDDLE, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 6 nearby schools with scores, including this one, SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY is 6th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY enrolled 932 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 873. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.5:1; by 2024-25 it was 16.8:1.
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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
- MATER BRICKELL ACADEMY MIDDLE0.3 mi · 525
- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES VIRTUAL ACADEMY0.3 mi · 24
- MATER ACADEMY VIRTUAL CHARTER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 99
- COLEGIATE PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.3 mi · 114
- MATER BRICKELL ACADEMY HIGH0.3 mi · 487
- MATER ACADEMY EAST CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 573
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMYHow large is SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY enrolls approximately 873 students in grades PK-08.
Is SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY have?
SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY employs 52 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1.
How diverse is SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY reports a student body of 17% White, 76% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY in?
SOUTHSIDE PREPARATORY ACADEMY is part of MIAMI-DADE.
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