Original Research by School Decision on Graduation Alliance7831
Graduation Alliance is an alternative school in Miami, operating under the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district, and it sits in a very different category from a traditional neighborhood high school. It serves students in the upper middle and high school grades, from eighth through twelfth, and its enrollment is exceptionally small, a handful of students at the time of this data. That size alone shapes nearly everything about the experience here.
Because this is a designated alternative school with such a small population, several data points that families typically consult are either absent or not applicable in the usual sense. State assessment results are not reported for this school. Graduation rate data is not available in what was provided. Chronic absenteeism figures are similarly missing. The comparison set for Miami-Dade County's districts could not place this school on any of those measures, not because the school declined to report them, but because the underlying data was not present. A parent wanting to understand academic outcomes in a traditional sense should ask the school directly.
What the demographic data does show is that the student body is almost entirely Hispanic, with a small share of Black students and no students from other reported groups. Free-and-reduced-price lunch eligibility rates and counts for students with IEPs or English learner designations were not reported, so the economic and special-population profile of this student body is not visible from this data alone.
The school's address places it in northwest Miami, in the 33147 zip code, a part of the city that sits well north of the downtown core and away from the high-rise corridors of Brickell and Edgewater. Miami itself is a large, dense urban city with sharply differentiated neighborhoods. Publicly reported data describes the city overall as very walkable, with Downtown scoring especially high, though walkability in the northwest part of the city is not separately broken out. Metrorail and Metromover transit serve many parts of Miami, and the city hosts a wide range of major employers across government, health care, education, and tourism.
The Miami-Dade district context is worth knowing for any family considering schools in this system. Publicly reported information indicates that Miami-Dade has been experiencing notable enrollment decline, which has led the district to propose closing or consolidating a number of schools across all three of its regions, with boundary changes and reconfigured grade structures following from those decisions. Families new to the area should expect that school assignments could shift. Separately, voters approved a property-tax measure tied to teacher pay and school safety that carries an ongoing cost for homeowners; that rate is set to expire in a few years without renewal. On cell phones, Miami-Dade initially chose programs over outright restrictions, but statewide legislation has advanced toward a full school-day prohibition.
Housing in the zip code around this school reflects Miami-Dade's broader market, which sits above the state median and well above the national median in home values. Rents have edged down slightly in the most recent period, though the rent-to-income ratio remains elevated relative to typical benchmarks, reflecting how expensive greater Miami is for renters broadly.
Alternative schools serve a specific purpose, and the right question for a family is whether this school's model fits a student's situation. Because program details were not available in the data provided, and because enrollment is so small, a parent interested in this school should contact it directly to understand its structure, any credit recovery or graduation support services it offers, and how it coordinates with the larger Miami-Dade system.
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