8 Miami Gardens Miami-Dade 100,758 107,167 113,069 +5.51% The Castillo de San Marcos Originally white with red corners its design reflects the colors and shapes of the Cross of Burgundy and the subsequent Flag of Florida. Sunrise Downtown is home to many city county state and federal courthouses jails judge offices and law firms Some of the courthouses in Downtown are the Dade County Family Court U.S Court of Appeals Judge U.S District Court Clerk Miami-Dade County Courthouse Federal Courthouse U.S Magistrate Judge City of Miami courthouses and many others. Florida Atlantic University (public) Seasonal: Munich, Barry University's main campus is in Miami Shores Florida While the main campus is in Miami Shores Barry University offers several continuing adult education classes at other locations in Florida Barry University has a campus in Orlando containing the Dwayne O Andreas School of Law and a campus in Saint Petersburg that has the second branch of its Physician Assistant Program.[citation needed] Barry University also has a campus on the island of St Croix where a third branch of its Physician Assistant Program is located.[citation needed]; Expansion Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School founded in 1971 1996 48.0% 2,546,870 42.3% 2,244,536, As the county seat of Miami-Dade County Downtown is home to the central offices and departments of the Miami-Dade County government mainly located in the Government Center area the Stephen P Clark Government Center is the central headquarters of Miami-Dade government with the offices of the Miami-Dade Mayor Although city hall for the City of Miami is in Coconut Grove many offices of Miami's city government are in Downtown including the city's Planning Department the Miami Police Department also has its central offices in Downtown. According to Miami's Beacon Council the top private employers in 2014 in Miami-Dade were:, Law and government As of 2000 the percentage of people that speak English not well or not at all made up 23.1% of the population the percentage of residents born in Florida was 26.9% the percentage of people born in another U.S state was 25.0% and the percentage of native residents but born outside the U.S was 6.4% while the percentage of foreign born residents was 41.7%, Mission Bay 7 Further reading The first airport on the site of MIA opened in the 1920s and was known as Miami City Airport Pan American World Airways opened an expanded facility adjacent to City Airport Pan American Field in 1928 Pan American Field was built on 116 acres of land on 36th Street and was the only mainland airport in the eastern United States that had port of entry facilities Its runways were located around the threshold of today's Runway 26R Eastern Airlines began to serve Pan American Field in 1931 followed by National Airlines in 1936 National used a terminal on the opposite side of LeJeune Road from the airport and would stop traffic on the road in order to taxi aircraft to and from its terminal Miami Army Airfield opened in 1943 during the Second World War to the south of Pan American Field: the runways of the two were originally separated by railroad tracks but the two airfields were listed in some directories as a single facility Following World War II in 1945 the City of Miami established a Port Authority and raised bond revenue to purchase Pan American Field which had been since renamed 36th Street Airport from Pan Am it merged with the former Miami Army Airfield which was purchased from the United States Army Air Force south of the railroad in 1949 and expanded further in 1951 when the railroad line itself was moved south to make more room the old terminal on 36th Street was closed in 1959 when the center modern passenger terminal (since greatly expanded) opened United States Air Force Reserve troop carrier and rescue squadrons also operated from the airport from 1949 through 1959 when the last unit relocated to nearby Homestead Air Force Base (now Homestead Air Reserve Base).

. . 5.2 Real estate The College of Law is currently 100th in the U.S News & World Report's law school rankings having risen steadily from 132nd when first ranked in 2010 the FIU College of Law was ranked among the Top 10 Best Value schools by the National Jurist the Best Value rating was based on three criteria: bar passage rate average indebtedness after graduation and employment nine months after graduation the FIU College of Law was also ranked 3rd amongst Florida schools for the scholarly impact of its faculty behind University of Florida and Florida State University According to the Leiter Rankings the College of Law has already made a scholarly impact that dramatically outpaces its academic reputation, Government and infrastructure Admits 20,364 19,126 18,013 17,962 16,748 Elsa Murano. . University Park houses almost all of the university's colleges and schools as well as all the administrative offices and main university facilities University Park is also home to the Ronald Reagan Presidential House the home of FIU's president the Wertheim Performing Arts Center the Frost Art Museum the International Hurricane Research Center and the university's athletic facilities such as FIU Stadium FIU Arena and the FIU Baseball Stadium. Main article: Indigenous people of the Everglades region! Miami's Brickell neighborhood is amongst the fastest-growing areas of Miami-Dade County[citation needed] Miami is home to several well-known Roman Catholic Jewish and non-denominational private schools the Archdiocese of Miami operates the city's Catholic private schools which include St Hugh Catholic School St Agatha Catholic School St Theresa School Immaculata-Lasalle High School Monsignor Edward Pace High School Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame High School St Brendan High School among numerous other Catholic elementary and high schools. .