Schools in Sweetwater · Dade County School District
Sweetwater’s public schools score below 51% of Florida districts
The public schools Sweetwater’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 51% of Florida’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
Reading proficiency is 54%, 2 points above the state. Math is 45%, 3 points below the state. Both are close enough to average that small changes could flip them. Test scores ↓
Which school depends on your street
With 118 middle and 62 high schools, the school a child attends depends on your address. After that, everyone goes to Sweetwater Elementary School. See the path ↓
This summary is written from the data on this page. Test scores are from 2020–21, a pandemic year, so treat small gaps with caution.
The School Grade
How Sweetwater compares
B− Test scoresC Graduation
Florida school districts we grade (73)Better than 49%
Lower resultsHigher results
Florida towns with similar household incomes (356)Better than 53%
High confidence. Built on 184,471 tested students and a graduating class of 26,393; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Florida’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Florida only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Sweetwater.
118 schools teach 6th grade in Sweetwater’s district. Which one depends on your address: Aventura Waterways K-8 Center, Miami Arts Studio 6-12 at Zelda Glazer, Norman S. Edelcup/Sunny Isles Beach K-8 and Citrus Grove K-8 Center and more.
118 schools teach 7th grade in Sweetwater’s district. Which one depends on your address: Aventura Waterways K-8 Center, Miami Arts Studio 6-12 at Zelda Glazer, Norman S. Edelcup/Sunny Isles Beach K-8 and Citrus Grove K-8 Center and more.
122 schools teach 8th grade in Sweetwater’s district. Which one depends on your address: Coral Reef Senior High School, Barbara Goleman Senior High, Miami Southridge Senior High and Aventura Waterways K-8 Center and more.
62 schools teach 9th grade in Sweetwater’s district. Which one depends on your address: John A. Ferguson Senior High, Coral Reef Senior High School, South Dade Senior High School and Miami Senior High School and more.
62 schools teach 10th grade in Sweetwater’s district. Which one depends on your address: John A. Ferguson Senior High, Coral Reef Senior High School, South Dade Senior High School and Miami Senior High School and more.
68 schools teach 11th grade in Sweetwater’s district. Which one depends on your address: John A. Ferguson Senior High, Coral Reef Senior High School, South Dade Senior High School and Miami Senior High School and more.
68 schools teach 12th grade in Sweetwater’s district. Which one depends on your address: John A. Ferguson Senior High, Coral Reef Senior High School, South Dade Senior High School and Miami Senior High School and more.
The path, start to finish
PK–5Sweetwater Elementary SchoolDade County School District
6–8118 middle schoolsDepends on your address
9–1262 high schoolsDepends on your address
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
CBT Technology InstituteCommunity college · For-profit · Fountainebleau
3.8 mi452 students
Miami Media SchoolCommunity college · For-profit · Doral
3.8 mi37 students
FVI School of Nursing and TechnologyCommunity college · For-profit · Fountainebleau
4.1 mi553 students
Straight-line distance from the center of Sweetwater. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS. 30 more within 30 miles.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Florida. Stars are from neighbors.