Lincoln-marti Schools (international Campus), Florida City FL

Original Research by School Decision on Lincoln-marti Schools (international Campus)

Lincoln-Marti Schools (International Campus) is a charter school serving kindergarten through eighth grade in Florida City, at the southern edge of Miami-Dade County. It enrolls a small student body by the standards of its grade band, drawn heavily from Hispanic families, with a smaller share of Black students and a very small White enrollment. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this in economically modest territory. Data on English learner and special education populations were not reported in the data available.

On math, the school's results are a genuine strength. Across every tested grade from third through seventh, a large majority of students scored proficient on Florida's FAST assessment, with upper-elementary and middle grades posting especially strong results. The picture in English Language Arts is more mixed and worth a closer look. Third and fourth grade ELA proficiency comes in well below half of students, which is a meaningful gap. Results improve through fifth grade and then climb more substantially in sixth through eighth, where proficiency is in a solid range. Science, tested in fifth grade, sits just above the halfway mark. The gap between the school's math outcomes and its early-grade reading outcomes is the sharpest academic pattern in the data, and parents of younger children may want to ask the school directly about its early literacy approach and how it supports students who are not yet meeting the proficiency bar.

Multi-year trend data were not available, so it is not possible to say whether outcomes have been improving, holding steady, or declining.

No AP, dual enrollment, or career-pathway offerings are listed, which is consistent with the school's grade span ending at eighth grade. Graduation rate does not apply here for the same reason. Comparison proficiency data relative to districts in Miami-Dade County could not be produced because the available comparison set was too small to generate a meaningful position.

Florida City itself sits at the far southern tip of the Florida mainland, where US 1 and the southern terminus of Florida's Turnpike converge before the road continues into the Everglades and the Keys. The built environment is auto-oriented, organized around the highway corridor with hotels, restaurants, a large outlet mall, and fuel stops serving travelers. Residential neighborhoods sit alongside agricultural land, and the area continues to see new housing and commercial development, including projects along major corridors, publicly reported by local outlets. The South Dade TransitWay connects Florida City to Dadeland South Metrorail, giving households without cars a route into the broader Miami-Dade network.

Housing near the school has seen home values and rents both pull back modestly over the past year, though values remain near the statewide midpoint. Rents consume a significant share of a typical household's income at current levels, which reflects broader South Florida affordability pressure.

Within Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the district context matters. Publicly reported enrollment declines have led the district to propose closing or consolidating multiple schools across all regions in 2026, with new grade-configuration models emerging. Families considering this school should be aware that boundary and assignment questions in the broader district remain in flux, though as a charter school Lincoln-Marti operates outside traditional attendance boundaries. The district also passed a property-tax referendum in 2022 to fund teacher pay and school safety through 2027, which adds a continuing cost for local homeowners.

For a family whose child is strong in math or whose priority is a small, predominantly Hispanic charter environment in a community gateway location, this school has real academic strengths to point to. The early-grade reading results are the one area where a family should ask specific questions before enrolling a kindergartner or early-elementary student.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 379%

School 79% · District 69% · ▲ 10 pts above district

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

Grade 478%

School 78% · District 68% · ▲ 10 pts above district

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

Grade 584%

School 84% · District 62% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 690%

School 90% · District 64% · ▲ 26 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 27 pts above county median

Grade 795%

School 95% · District 54% · ▲ 41 pts above district

▲ 46 pts above state median · ▲ 42 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 346%

School 46% · District 60% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Grade 435%

School 35% · District 59% · ▼ 24 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 554%

School 54% · District 60% · ▼ 6 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 672%

School 72% · District 63% · ▲ 10 pts above district

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

Grade 779%

School 79% · District 62% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 875%

School 75% · District 60% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Science

Grade 552%

School 52% · District 56% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 2 pts below 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 3Lower-income46%Higher-income47%1 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income75%Higher-income75%0 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income92%Higher-income67%26 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income80%Higher-income87%7 pp gap