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Enrollment
594
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039008514
WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY
8435 W 36TH AVE, HIALEAH, FL 33018 · (305) 827-3025 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL594 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 50% 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.
- CBeats 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
16.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
202 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 | 34 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 68 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 52 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 10% larger than its 8th grade class (52).
Student demographics
22%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
57.8%
FL avg 56.7% . -3.7pp since 2023
Math
65.9%
FL avg 58.9% . -2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.8% | 65.9% |
| 2023-24 | 61.6% | 68.1% |
% 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
61.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% 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 WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY
WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY's state test result (61.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY this school | 594 | 34.0% | 61.8% |
| KENDALL SQUARE K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 638 | 30.9% | 68.9% |
| DR. MANUEL C. BARREIRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 530 | 34.9% | 75.3% |
| OLIVER HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 617 | 35.5% | 68.9% |
| WILLIAM H. LEHMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 522 | 36.2% | 73.6% |
| JANE S. ROBERTS K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 630 | 37.9% | 70.8% |
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 WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.8% | #788 of 2,136 | #121 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.9% | #831 of 2,149 ▼ 221 | #140 of 279 ▼ 43 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.8% | #937 of 2,149 ▼ 277 | #137 of 279 ▼ 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 594 | #1,048 of 2,267 | #101 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #1,135 of 2,077 | #124 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.7% | #1,944 of 2,108 | #139 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.0% | #1,726 of 2,188 | #230 of 283 |
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
594
+69 (+13%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 594 | 37 | 16.1:1 | 34% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 545 | 37 | 14.7:1 | 42% (227) |
| 2022-23 | 533 | 37 | 14.4:1 | 43% (227) |
| 2020-21 | 525 | 34 | 15.4:1 | 59% (312) |
| 2017-18 | 180 | 11 | 16.4:1 | 50% (90) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY.
About WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY
WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY sits in HIALEAH, Florida, and is classified as an elementary school. Classes run from pre-K through 8, and the school has 594 students.
The 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE enroll 335,685 students altogether, WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY among them.
At WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY, Hispanic students make up 88% of the student body. Other students are 6% Black, 3% Asian, and 3% White. By comparison, Miami-Dade County residents are about 69% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 22%.
Teachers at WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY total 37 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 16.1:1. The 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is higher than this school's figure. The school counts 202 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 34%. Compared with the 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County, the school's rate is lower.
allk12 grades WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY a B-. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school with WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY's lunch-eligibility share in Florida is predicted to score 64.1%. WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY scores 61.8%, 2.4 points below that line.
Federal survey data for Miami-Dade County show that median household income is about $71,753, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. A total of 561 public schools operate in Miami-Dade County, serving about 335,817 students.
Nearest public school: LINCOLN-MARTI CHARTER SCHOOL (HIALEAH CAMPUS), about 0.1 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is 5th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY saw enrollment rise 13% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 HIALEAH
- HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- AMERICAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,582 students
- PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,422 students
- HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,367 students
- MATER ACADEMY LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,201 students
- MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTERElementary · 1,196 students
Nearby schools
- LINCOLN-MARTI CHARTER SCHOOL (HIALEAH CAMPUS)0.1 mi · 171
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGH0.6 mi · 2,973
- HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 995
- ERNEST R. GRAHAM K-8 ACADEMY0.9 mi · 947
- WEST HIALEAH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,128
- CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY1.4 mi · 1,002
Frequently asked questions
About WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMYHow large is WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY enrolls approximately 594 students in grades PK-08.
Is WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
Approximately 16.1:1 students per teacher at WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY.
How diverse is WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY reports a student body of 3% White, 88% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian.
Is WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY public or private?
WEST LAKES PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.