WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY

WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in HIALEAH, Florida, overseen by MIAMI-DADE, educateing 594 students in grades pre-K through 8.

WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that hosts 335,685 students overall.

Demographically, WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY shows that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 6% Black, 3% Asian, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 34% of students at WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.1%; this one delivers 61.8%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household income runs about $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. WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

Nearest neighbor: LINCOLN-MARTI CHARTER SCHOOL (HIALEAH CAMPUS), around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 61.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 230%: 180 students in 2018 compared to 594 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged down from 8% to 3%.

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