The top reported proficiency rate is 100% in Math. The lowest is 95% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Mater Academy East Preparatory
Mater Academy East Preparatory is a charter school sitting on SW 1st Street in the heart of Miami, authorized under the Miami-Dade district. It holds grades six through twelve on paper, but at the time of this data the enrollment picture is striking: every enrolled student is in sixth grade, and the upper grades show no students at all. This school is effectively a single-grade program right now, whether because it is newly launched and building up one cohort at a time, or for some other operational reason the data does not explain. A family considering grades seven through twelve should ask directly whether and when those grades will be active.
The sixth-grade cohort is small, fully Hispanic, and a large majority qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school is charter, not a traditional neighborhood assignment school, and it sits within the Miami-Dade district's broader structure.
Academic results for the sixth graders who were tested on Florida's FAST assessment are strong. In math, every tested student scored at the proficient level or above. In ELA, nearly all did, with only one student below the proficiency threshold. For a cohort this small those figures carry real weight but also real limits: one student's result in either direction shifts the picture noticeably, and there is only a single year of data with no trend line to read. There are no multi-year trends available, and no comparison against the county's other districts is possible because the cohort for that analysis was too small to yield a meaningful position. State testing results are reported only for sixth grade because that is the only grade with enrolled students.
No graduation rate exists to report, for the straightforward reason that no students are enrolled in the grades where a graduation rate would be calculated. The same applies to chronic absenteeism and several other secondary-level metrics. Program offerings were not available in the data.
The school sits near downtown Miami, which is publicly reported as one of the most walkable stretches of the city, with transit connections via Metrorail and the free Metromover system and immediate access to civic, cultural, and employment anchors. That urban context is part of what a family enrolling here would experience daily.
On the housing side, the zip code around this school carries home values that run well above both the state and national midpoints, and rents are high enough that they claim a substantial share of median household income. The local market has softened slightly year over year, but remains expensive by most measures. Families renting in the area should expect a rent burden that is above the typical national threshold.
At the district level, two things are worth knowing. Voters approved a property tax increase tied to teacher pay and school safety that remains in effect through the late 2020s, which is a recurring cost for homeowners and a funding source the district is drawing on. Miami-Dade is also managing a sharp district-wide enrollment decline that has pushed the district toward closing or consolidating multiple schools, with reconfigured grade structures possible. A charter school like Mater Academy East Preparatory operates somewhat outside that boundary and reassignment process, but parents should still be aware of the broader context in which the district is operating.
What this adds up to is a very young school, possibly in its first year of operation, with a small and academically high-performing sixth-grade class and no real upper-school track yet in place. The academic results for the students who are here are genuinely good, but the school's full shape, its eventual size, its program depth across the secondary grades, and its long-term stability, are questions the data cannot answer. A parent drawn by the test results should weigh them alongside a direct conversation with the school about its growth timeline and what the pathway through twelfth grade actually looks like.
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