Miami Southridge Senior High School is a secondary school located in South Miami Heights, Florida (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 Miami-Dade County between South Miami and Homestead.
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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 census-designated place in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, 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 Miami Herald described Southridge as "a low-performing school".
Notable alumni
Athletics
Robert Andino - Major League Baseball player (Baltimore Orioles)
Yan Gomes - Major League Baseball player
Fredi Gonzalez - Major League manager (Atlanta Braves)
Orlando Palmeiro - Major League Baseball player
Nelson Santovenia - former Major League Baseball player (Montreal Expos)
Shannon Stewart - Major League Baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays)
Robert Bailey - former cornerback in the National Football League
Dicaprio Bootle - player for the Kansas City Chiefs
Courtland Bullard - former linebacker in the National Football League
Jamal Carter - American football player
Randy Charlton - American football player
Jameel Cook - former fullback in the National Football League
Shawn Davis - American Football player
Darren Davis - former running back in the Canadian Football League
Troy Davis - former running back in the National Football League and Canadian Football League
Steve Everitt - former offensive lineman in the National Football League
Notable faculty
Steve Hertz, baseball player and coach