WESTLAND HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

WESTLAND HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the mid-sized four-year high schools in HIALEAH, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE, with 1,191 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. WESTLAND HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, WESTLAND HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.4:1. The state averages about 23.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WESTLAND HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 49.6%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the area at large, 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), WESTLAND HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CITRUS HEALTH SIPP/CRISIS, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WESTLAND HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 68.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 32%: 1,758 students in 2018 compared to 1,191 in 2025.

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