Miramar High School is a public high school located in Miramar, Florida. The school opened in 1970 and serves students residing in southwest Broward County; however, magnet students may hail from elsewhere in the county.Miramar High School serves grades 9 through 12. The school houses two magnet programs: an Aviation program and the International Baccalaureate program. Miramar has an FCAT school grade of "A" for the academic year ending 2011, up from "B" the year before.AcademicsDemographicsAs of 2013-2014, the total student enrollment is 2,646. The ethnic makeup of the school is 3.1% White, 77.2% Black, 13.0% Hispanic, 5.1% Asian or Pacific Islander, 1.4% Multiracial, and 0.2% Native American or Native Alaskan.RankingsFCATMiramar, in 2011 and 2012, ranked as an "A" school according to Florida's FCAT grading scale.Newsweek MagazineTen Broward County Public Schools were recognized among Newsweek Magazine’s top high schools in the nation in 2009; Miramar High School was ranked in the top six percent of American public schools. The rankings are derived by adding up the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and Cambridge tests taken by students at a school divided by the number of seniors graduating the same year. The data ranking was based on data from the 2007/08 school year.
