Jose Marti MAST 6-12 Academy 5701 West 24th Avenue, Hialeah, FL 33016

"This school really is ok, it may not have many events or extracurliculars, but most teachers are fun and chill and you learn well. However I hate the fact that even when you have sent emails to change your schedule because you feel like you arent learning with certain teachers and ask for others, they refuse and say that they cannot do this because that is not how their schedules work. Like sorry I dont want to fail my EOC'S :/"

"A really great school. Ms Llanes, Ms Perez, and Ms Samaoya are three of the best science teacher in the world. They are extremely nice and easygoing. They really care about our education and give us detailed reviews that help us in the EOC apart from many other resources. Ms Prieto is an amazing math teacher who will get you to past the Algebra 1 EOC no matter what. I love the way she teaches and how much she cares about us. There's also Mr Franco, my World History teacher. He is the best. His class is never boring, he gets along really good with us and we joke all the time. Dr Reyes, is a wonderful Civics teacher. Many people say Civics is hard and everything but with him it's just fun. This are only some of the great staff in this school, so if you are deciding whether to go here I really recommended it."

"I’be been at José Martí since 6th Grade (that’s about 4 years), and from my perspective being a student of color plays many roles in this schools events. When I moved over into middle school (6th grade) I was nervous about the experience being that I have to wake up at around 5 AM. That time has now been increased to 4:40 AM, slowly I am becoming more and more stressed with my lack of sleep as the classes also provide an ABUNDANCE of busy work, (with a handful of meaningful lessons and work less than most of the time). Aside from that returning to my main point I came to this school and I experienced a long-term culture shock. There were very few “African-American” students at this school, while the population is still obsolete, there is slowly more of an integration. However, that still does not change the fact that internally I was and still am very hesitant to represent every faculty and student at this school and showing pride. Seeing that many students feel that it is ok to say the “n” word, whether it be friendly or not. This school has also come with its time of racial jokes especially with Hispanics that go to the school saying the “n” word with hard r’s. Another thing is that Wikipedia states that “The school operates with 8 periods, with 4 even-period classes on one day, and 4 odd-period classes on the other, to allow students to take extra electives.” However, I only have one elective, my “extra elective” went to a class like Experimental Science( which is acclaimed to be mandatory when most schools only have one science class). Which in turn leads to me make notice of how this school has also reduced other subjects besides STEM, into mostly being an afterschool club. For example, the arts; I just recently found out that the school USED to have a Music room and TWO art classes. Now there is only one class, and one art teacher which shows that slowly anything other than STEM is not the schools strong suit. Overall, there is a great deal of change to make this school more desirable to ALL races and cultural backgrounds.There are teachers who care, teachers that don’t and teachers that have other professions, which leads me to say that although academically this school is “A1” culturally is you’re not Hispanic with lighter skin, you are bound to run into racial and ethnic problems, stress from homework, and a great decrease (maybe or maybe not) in the development of your creativity. P.S. If you’re a parent deciding on sending your child here, give it a chance but take the schools academic achievements with a grain of salt. Not everybody fits in the way they want to at this school, and keep up with how your child feels about this school. This school is well orchestrated and does do a great job in providing “notice” to most students looking for above-standard colleges and universities to attend."

"Love everything about this school. I am a current student at this school and I can't think of one thing I hate about this school. The teachers are great and helpful and the people are very friendly. Those people that way this school is too advanced, are kids that don't try at school and expect to have straight A's, I feel that this school is perfectly where it should be academically."

"All the teachers ensure the best educational experience for the students and they're very nice to talk to most the time. We may not have a lot of sports or a music program, but our academics and fun teachers make up for it. I love my school"