ANDOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL

ANDOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL, an intimate middle school in MIAMI, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE, works with 379 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so ANDOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 52% leaner than that benchmark.

MIAMI-DADE comprises 527 schools with combined enrollment of 335,685 students; ANDOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, ANDOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (81%). Other groups include 18% Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ANDOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Miami-Dade County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ANDOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.5%; this one delivers 49.9%.

In the surrounding community, Miami-Dade County reports that median household income runs about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), ANDOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

WATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ANDOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ANDOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL has contracted 31%, going from 546 students in 2018 to 379 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 9% to 18%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

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