YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY

YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY operates as an one-room-style high school in MIAMI, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 165 students spanning grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY sits 84% leaner than that benchmark.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY records that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 47% Hispanic, 3% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

In terms of school funding signals, YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.3%, the actual is 55.3%, a residual of +2.9 points.

In the broader community, Miami-Dade County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ENEIDA M. HARTNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.

YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at YOUNG MEN'S PREPARATORY ACADEMY has shrank 29%, going from 232 students in 2018 to 165 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 57% to 48% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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