Lincoln-marti Charter School (hialeah Campus), Hialeah FL

Original Research by School Decision on Lincoln-marti Charter School (hialeah Campus)

Lincoln-Marti Charter School's Hialeah campus sits on West 84th Street in a city that reads more like an urban neighborhood than a traditional suburb. Hialeah is a densely built, predominantly Cuban-American community where industrial corridors and compact residential streets share space, and where daily life is shaped by local bakeries, flea markets, and the kind of street-level commercial texture that distinguishes it from the master-planned communities elsewhere in South Florida. Transit is genuinely useful here: Metrorail and Tri-Rail connections link the city to downtown Miami, Miami International Airport, and Broward County, which is unusual for a Florida city of this scale.

The school is a charter, operated within the Miami-Dade district, and serves kindergarten through twelfth grade in a single campus. Enrollment is small, even relative to other K-12 schools. The student body is almost entirely Hispanic, reflecting the surrounding community, and a substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs was not available in the data provided.

State testing results from Florida's FAST assessments give a mixed picture. In math, proficiency is solid across the tested elementary grades and holds reasonably in seventh grade, with eighth grade showing the strongest result of any tested grade. That eighth-grade math figure stands out as a genuine strength. ELA tells a different story. Third grade starts near the same level as math, but proficiency drops sharply through fourth and fifth grade, recovers modestly in seventh, and climbs again by eighth. The gap between math and ELA performance is wide in the middle grades, and a parent would want to ask the school directly about how it is addressing reading and writing development in grades four through six. Sixth-grade results in both subjects were suppressed, likely due to small group size. Science results from the state's statewide assessment show roughly half of fifth graders and a similar share of eighth graders reaching proficiency. No trend data was available to say whether these numbers are improving.

The school serves through twelfth grade, but grade-by-grade enrollment tells its own story. The upper high school grades are very thin, with only a handful of students in eleventh and twelfth grade. That kind of attrition is worth asking about. Graduation rate data was not available. Program information, including whether the school offers AP courses, dual enrollment, or career pathways, was not provided, so that part of the academic pathway is unclear from the data at hand.

The housing market around the school is expensive relative to state and national benchmarks. Home values in the zip code run well above the Florida median, and rents require a meaningful share of a typical household's income to carry. Hialeah is actively building out transit-oriented, mixed-use housing near its rail stations, and publicly reported development projects suggest the city expects continued population and housing growth in the coming years. That context matters for families weighing long-term affordability.

Within Miami-Dade, the district is managing a pronounced enrollment decline, and publicly reported proposals in spring 2026 included closing or consolidating up to nine schools. Lincoln-Marti is a charter operating under a separate arrangement from district-run schools, but families should be aware that the broader district environment is in flux, with boundary changes and school restructurings possible. The district also passed a property-tax referendum in 2022 to fund teacher pay and campus security, which carries a direct cost for homeowners through at least 2027.

A comparison of this school's academic performance against other districts in Miami-Dade County was not possible from the available data; the comparison set did not have enough schools to yield a meaningful peer ranking.

What this school offers is a full K-12 path within a small, culturally cohesive setting in a city undergoing real change. The math trajectory is encouraging, particularly in eighth grade. The ELA results, especially in the elementary grades, are an area a prospective family should press the school on before enrolling.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=50%Cohort of 14 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

867 schools plotted. 183 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 367%

School 67% · District 69% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 467%

School 67% · District 68% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 567%

School 67% · District 62% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 763%

School 63% · District 54% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 881%

School 81% · District 60% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 367%

School 67% · District 60% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 428%

School 28% · District 59% · ▼ 31 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

Grade 539%

School 39% · District 60% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 742%

School 42% · District 62% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 859%

School 59% · District 60% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Science

Grade 544%

School 44% · District 56% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 853%

School 53% · District 46% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

This schoolMIAMI-DADE, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income60%Higher-income55%5 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income55%Higher-income64%9 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income82%Higher-income50%32 pp gap