# SOUTH MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120039000613`
- **School name**: SOUTH MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: MIAMI, FL 33155
- **Address**: 6856 SW 53RD ST
- **District**: MIAMI-DADE (LEAID `1200390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 25.72036, -80.30522
- **Phone**: (305)666-5871
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7567944 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Miami_Senior_High_School
- **Founded**: 1971

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,611
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 75
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 46.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 94.0%
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 433)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 408

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 41.5% (655 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (29 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 38.4% (605 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 89.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 5.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 52.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.2% — 223 students
- **English Learners**: 15.0% — 237 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 142 students
- **Autism**: 50 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 31 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,172
- **Federal share**: $2,166
- **State + local share**: $10,007
### 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**: $73,992
- **Poverty rate**: 15.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 58.1%
- **Unemployment**: 0.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,068
- **Foreign-born residents**: 45.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.2 miles (AIRCO PLATING CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.01 miles (LITTLE RIVER PRESERVE)

### 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**: 8.37928 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SOUTH MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0.87% (this school: 1.02%)
- **SOUTH MIAMI K-8 CENTER** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.02%)
- **LUDLAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.02%)
- **DAVID FAIRCHILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.02%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH MIAMI CAMPUS)** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.02%)

### ela proficiency
- **SOUTH MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 73% (this school: 49%)
- **SOUTH MIAMI K-8 CENTER** — 0.4 mi away, 70% (this school: 49%)
- **LUDLAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 49%)
- **DAVID FAIRCHILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 74.5% (this school: 49%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH MIAMI CAMPUS)** — 1.3 mi away, 92% (this school: 49%)

### graduation rate
- **INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY** — 1.6 mi away, 100% (this school: 94%)
- **SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGH** — 2.1 mi away, 98% (this school: 94%)
- **CORAL GABLES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 97% (this school: 94%)
- **TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY** — 2.8 mi away, 97% (this school: 94%)
- **MIAMI CORAL PARK SENIOR HIGH** — 3.2 mi away, 95% (this school: 94%)

### math proficiency
- **SOUTH MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 68% (this school: 35%)
- **SOUTH MIAMI K-8 CENTER** — 0.4 mi away, 64% (this school: 35%)
- **LUDLAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 77% (this school: 35%)
- **DAVID FAIRCHILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 85% (this school: 35%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH MIAMI CAMPUS)** — 1.3 mi away, 95% (this school: 35%)

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