Miami-Dade
Miami, FL · 520 schools · 335,929 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Miami-Dade has 520 schools serving 335,929 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 48%. The average graduation rate is 78%.
Miami-Dade operates 520 public schools, including John A. Ferguson Senior High, Coral Reef Senior High School, South Dade Senior High School, Miami Senior High School, Barbara Goleman Senior High and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Miami-Dade is approximately 78% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Miami-Dade is John A. Ferguson Senior High with 4,368 students.
Miami-Dade serves 335,929 students across 520 schools in FL, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Miami-Dade's average proficiency rate of 48% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is around average for US public school districts. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Miami-Dade to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
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