Elementary · Florida
West Lakes Preparatory Academy
Free meals for allWest Lakes Preparatory Academy, a public elementary school in Hialeah, Florida: grades pre-k–8, 594 students, 16.1 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Miami-Dade.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 594
- Teachers (FTE)
- 37.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.1
- Grades
- Pre-K–8
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 55% of elementary schools in Florida
Median 15.8 · 2,167 schools compared
More students per teacher than 66% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 52% of elementary schools in Florida
Median 578 · 2,223 schools compared
Larger than 80% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Miami-Dade
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Miami-Dade.
Location
- Address
- 8435 W 36TH Ave, Hialeah, FL 33018
- Phone
- (305)827-3025
- City or town
- Hialeah
- County
- Miami-Dade County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Hialeah Gardens Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 995 | 12.9 |
Ernest R. Graham K-8 AcademyFree meals for all | Pre-K–8 | 947 | 19.7 |
West Hialeah Gardens Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 1,128 | 14.6 |
Youth Co-Op Charter SchoolCharter | K–8 | 761 | 17.7 |
Bob Graham Education CenterFree meals for all | Pre-K–8 | 1,404 | 17.1 |
Ben Sheppard Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 927 | 16.0 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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