TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT GATEWAY

Located at 6500 SW 97TH AVE, in MIAMI, Florida, TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT GATEWAY is a compact elementary campus that caters to 333 students (grades K through 8), overseen by MIAMI-DADE. Enrollment runs roughly 45% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT GATEWAY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT GATEWAY shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%); the rest reads as 7% White. 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 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT GATEWAY sits in the top 10% of Florida schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 75.3%; actual is 91.1%, +15.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, Miami-Dade County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT GATEWAY is one.

GLADES MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT GATEWAY. On composite proficiency, TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT GATEWAY comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 68.4%.

TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT GATEWAY operates from a residential location. TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT GATEWAY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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