YOUTH CO-OP PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL

YOUTH CO-OP PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL, an one-room-style high school in HIALEAH, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE, instructs 240 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 77% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), YOUTH CO-OP PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, YOUTH CO-OP PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL shows that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, On paper, YOUTH CO-OP PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.0:1. The state averages about 23.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Miami-Dade County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, YOUTH CO-OP PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.0%; this one delivers 58.1%.

In the area at large, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household income runs about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 YOUTH CO-OP PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is one.

YOUTH CO-OP CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts YOUTH CO-OP PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 60.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site. YOUTH CO-OP PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 271 students in 2018 compared to 240 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 today.

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