Miami Southridge Senior High School is a

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located in

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(Miami postal address). Its current principal is Humberto J. Miret. The school serves ninth through twelfth grade students in a mostly unincorporated suburban and rural area in the southern stretches of

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History

Miami Southridge was the zoned high school for Cutler Bay prior to 2012. Now Cutler Bay High School is the zoned school.

Campus

It is in South Miami Heights, a

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, with a Miami postal address.

Demographics

In 2009-10, Miami Southridge Senior High School's student body was 48.2% Hispanic (of any race), 40.3% Black, and 8.7% non-Hispanic White. Smaller groups included Asian, Indian, and multiracial ethnicities. 54.9% of the students were eligible for free and reduced lunch, 19.2% were students with disabilities (SWD), and 9.3% were students of limited English proficiency (LEP).

Academic performance

In 2011 Perry Stein of the ''

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'' described Southridge as "a low-performing school".

Notable alumni

Athletics

Baseball

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Football

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* Courtland Bullard - former

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- American football player * Jameel Cook - former fullback in the

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Mixed martial arts

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Notable faculty

* Steve Hertz, baseball player and coach

References

External links

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Demographics

Academic performance

Notable alumni

Athletics

Baseball

Football

Mixed martial arts

Notable faculty

See also

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