# FELIX VARELA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120039004340`
- **School name**: FELIX VARELA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: MIAMI, FL 33196
- **Address**: 15255 SW 96TH ST
- **District**: MIAMI-DADE (LEAID `1200390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 25.67788, -80.44282
- **Phone**: (305)752-7900
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5442348 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Varela_Senior_High_School
- **Founded**: 2000

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,935
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 80
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 40.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: A

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 100.0%
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 560)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 617

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.4% (406 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 41.3% (828 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 92.3%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 2.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 46.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.1% — 343 students
- **English Learners**: 9.5% — 190 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 169 students
- **Autism**: 66 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 48 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 17 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,884
- **Federal share**: $1,763
- **State + local share**: $9,122
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,452,063
- **Federal share**: 19.5%
- **State share**: 23.3%
- **Local share**: 57.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,807,498

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $85,570
- **Poverty rate**: 4.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 39.3%
- **Unemployment**: 5.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,521
- **Foreign-born residents**: 59.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.3 miles (HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.10 miles (DEDICATED TRANSPORTATION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MDWASA - MAIN SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.29318 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HAMMOCKS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)
- **OLIVER HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0.32% (this school: 0.35%)
- **CLAUDE PEPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)
- **PINECREST ACADEMY (SOUTH CAMPUS)** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)
- **CHRISTINA M. EVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)

### ela proficiency
- **HAMMOCKS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 59% (this school: 52%)
- **OLIVER HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 82% (this school: 52%)
- **CLAUDE PEPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 75.5% (this school: 52%)
- **PINECREST ACADEMY (SOUTH CAMPUS)** — 1.0 mi away, 82% (this school: 52%)
- **CHRISTINA M. EVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 86.5% (this school: 52%)

### math proficiency
- **HAMMOCKS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 54% (this school: 46%)
- **OLIVER HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 83% (this school: 46%)
- **CLAUDE PEPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 75% (this school: 46%)
- **PINECREST ACADEMY (SOUTH CAMPUS)** — 1.0 mi away, 81% (this school: 46%)
- **CHRISTINA M. EVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 70% (this school: 46%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/felix-varela-senior-high-school-miami
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/felix-varela-senior-high-school-miami/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/felix-varela-senior-high-school-miami/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/felix-varela-senior-high-school-miami/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/felix-varela-senior-high-school-miami/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/felix-varela-senior-high-school-miami/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/felix-varela-senior-high-school-miami/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/felix-varela-senior-high-school-miami/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/felix-varela-senior-high-school-miami/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/felix-varela-senior-high-school-miami/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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