Public school / High
Miami Lakes Educational Center
Miami Lakes, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120039004339
- District
- Miami-Dade
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Miami Lakes Educational Center is a public high school in Miami Lakes, Florida, run by Miami-Dade. It enrols 1,025 students — the 8208th largest of 4,334 public schools in Florida.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,025
Teachers
43.0
Students per teacher
23.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
61.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Miami-Dade
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1John A. Ferguson Senior High4,368 students
- 2Coral Reef Senior High School3,243 students
- 3South Dade Senior High School3,145 students
- 4Miami Senior High School2,905 students
- 5Barbara Goleman Senior High2,854 students
- 6Coral Gables Senior High School2,824 students
- 7Hialeah Gardens Senior High School2,756 students
- 8Miami Palmetto Senior High School2,671 students
- Enrollment+66.9%
- Teachers+13.2%
- Students per teacher+40.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+5.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory