Larkin School of Nursing Student Defense Lawyer | Miami

Larkin School of Nursing, LLC is a private for-profit nursing school in Miami. Before anything else: it is not the same institution as Larkin University, which is a separate entity with its own IPEDS record. Confusing the two is easy and consequential, because naming the wrong entity in a claim wastes a limitation period.

65.91% of 44 first-time candidates

The programme passed 65.91% of 44 first-time candidates in 2025 against a statutory floor of 76.05% — twenty-nine passes and fifteen failures, roughly ten points short of the minimum.

Under Fla. Stat. section 464.019(5)(a)1 a Florida nursing programme’s first-time NCLEX passage rate must stay within 10 percentage points of the national average for comparable programmes — in 2025 that floor was 76.05% for associate-degree programmes and 77.17% for practical-nursing programmes. Section 464.019(5)(a)2 puts a programme two consecutive years below the floor at risk of probation and loss of approval, and section 464.019(5)(c) then obliges the programme to disclose that probationary status in writing to its students and applicants — a failure to give that notice is an independent, statute-based misrepresentation theory against a school that enrolled a student while on probation. A single year below the floor is not probation, and the Board of Nursing publishes no probation roster, so probationary status must be established from board minutes and orders rather than inferred. Every Florida programme is tabulated on the Florida nursing programme pass-rate page.

A private school, so the statute students rely on does not apply

Most writing about Florida student dismissal assumes a public college, where Fla. Stat. section 1006.60(3) supplies notice, a hearing, the right to be accompanied by counsel and a burden that rests on the institution. This is a private institution. None of that section reaches it.

What governs instead is the enrolment agreement, the catalogue and the student and programme handbooks, read as a contract. Sharick v. Southeastern University of the Health Sciences establishes that a Florida student dismissed in breach of the school’s own contractual undertakings has a claim, and that damages can extend to lost future earning capacity rather than a refund of tuition. So the work is documentary: identify the exact promises the school made about process, and show which it did not keep.

Two further things matter at schools of this kind. Many enrolment agreements contain an arbitration clause, and whether it binds a student depends on the version signed, how broadly it is drafted, whether its cost terms are unconscionable and whether the school has waived it — that question comes first, because it decides whether there is a courtroom at all. And where a school is licensed by the Florida Commission for Independent Education rather than regionally accredited, the CIE complaint route exists alongside any civil claim and is often the faster pressure point.

Identify the right defendant first

Larkin School of Nursing does not appear in the federal IPEDS directory in its own right, which is one reason the confusion with Larkin University persists. The enrolment agreement, the tuition receipts and the Commission for Independent Education licence record are the documents that establish which legal entity the student actually contracted with, and they should be read before a demand letter goes out, let alone a complaint. Where a school is a limited liability company, it is also worth establishing early whether the entity that ran the programme is still active and what its registered agent is.

Where a Larkin School of Nursing case is filed

Miami is in Miami-Dade County, which 28 U.S.C. section 89(c) places in the Southern District of Florida, Miami Division — subject to any forum or arbitration term in the enrolment agreement.

What can a student defense lawyer do here?

  • Resolve the arbitration question first, from the agreement the student actually signed.
  • Assemble the enrolment agreement, catalogue and programme handbook for the correct edition, and pin down the promises about process.
  • Test the progression arithmetic — withdrawals, repeats and clinical failures are often counted in ways the handbook does not authorise.
  • Use the Commission for Independent Education complaint route where the school is CIE-licensed, in parallel with the civil claim.
  • Press on the wording of the decision letter, which follows the student into every future licensure and transfer application.

How Florida student dismissal cases work generally is set out on the Florida student defence page.

Other Florida nursing programs

Every school writes its own dismissal, appeal and conduct rules, and the filing deadlines are rarely the same from one campus to the next. These pages set out the procedure at other Florida nursing programs:

Common questions about Larkin School of Nursing cases

Is Larkin School of Nursing the same as Larkin University?

No. They are separate entities, and Larkin University has its own federal IPEDS record while Larkin School of Nursing, LLC does not. Naming the wrong entity in a claim can waste a limitation period, so establish which one you contracted with from your enrolment documents.

What was the school’s NCLEX pass rate?

65.91% of 44 first-time candidates in 2025 — twenty-nine passes and fifteen failures — against a statutory floor of 76.05%.

How do I work out which entity to sue?

From the enrolment agreement, the tuition receipts and the Commission for Independent Education licence record. Where the school is an LLC, also check whether the entity is still active and who its registered agent is.

Which court covers a Larkin School of Nursing case?

The Southern District of Florida, Miami Division, for Miami-Dade County — subject to any forum-selection or arbitration clause in the enrolment agreement.