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What's the one class at APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
1,143
Middle
DISTRICT 883 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000256
APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL
6800 ARTHUR ST, HOLLYWOOD, FL 33024 · (754) 323-2900 · Broward County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,143 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% of Florida public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
21.3:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
515 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 373 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 397 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 373 | 33% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
54.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
54.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.2% | 54.5% |
| 2023-24 | 48.2% | 51.6% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
55.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL
APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (55.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,143 | 45.1% | 55.7% |
| OCOEE MIDDLE OCOEE | 1,155 | 48.5% | 48.4% |
| PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR MIDDLE SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 999 | 46.2% | 44.6% |
| CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE ORLANDO | 955 | 41.6% | 38.3% |
| DRIFTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 955 | 47.2% | 47.4% |
| NEW RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL FORT LAUDERDALE | 1,566 | 45.0% | 51.0% |
Matched among Florida middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.7% | #247 of 560 | #25 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #311 of 560 ▼ 3 | #26 of 47 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #275 of 560 ▲ 14 | #27 of 47 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,143 | #77 of 584 | #11 of 48 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.3:1 | #434 of 547 | #23 of 41 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.5% | #226 of 553 | #18 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.1% | #359 of 565 | #24 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.9% | #249 of 379 | #26 of 34 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,143
-235 (-17%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 1,128
Student : Teacher
21.3:1
was 21.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,143 | 53.7 | 21.3:1 | 45% (515) |
| 2023-24 | 1,172 | 53.7 | 21.8:1 | 53% (619) |
| 2022-23 | 1,168 | 55.2 | 21.2:1 | 71% (828) |
| 2020-21 | 1,378 | 65 | 21.2:1 | 68% (936) |
| 2017-18 | 1,255 | 75 | 16.7:1 | 83% (1,039) |
| 2015-16 | 1,252 | 73 | 17.1:1 | 79% (988) |
| 2010-11 | 936 | 57 | 16.4:1 | 81% (762) |
| 2000-01 | 1,517 | 65 | 23.3:1 | 52% (796) |
| 1990-91 | 1,128 | 48 | 23.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL
This page covers APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL, a medium-sized middle-grades school in HOLLYWOOD, Florida. It educates 1,143 students in grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 44% bigger than the 794 average for middle schools in Florida.
Enrollment across the 325 schools in BROWARD totals 243,591 students.
Hispanic students are the majority at APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 51% of enrollment. Other groups include 34% Black, 8% White, 4% Asian, and 2% multiracial. The county population is about 33% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 61% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL counts 53.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 21.3 students for each one. On average, middle schools in Florida have 19.6:1, compared with 21.3:1 here. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch.
APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 50% of Florida public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL is 2.9 points below its prediction. Actual: 55.7%. Predicted: 58.6%.
Broward County has about 1,977,129 residents, and the median household income is $77,633, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. In all, Broward County has 338 public schools and roughly 244,502 students.
The closest public school, HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles from APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL is 2nd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment dropped from 1,378 in 2020-21 to 1,143 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Broward County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,977,129
Census ACS
Median income
$77,633
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
338
244,502 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BROWARD
- CYPRESS BAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,579 students
- WESTERN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,510 students
- MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,089 students
- CORAL GLADES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,843 students
- WEST BROWARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,492 students
- J. P. TARAVELLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,436 students
Other schools in HOLLYWOOD
- SOUTH BROWARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,358 students
- MCARTHUR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,866 students
- HOLLYWOOD HILLS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- HOLLYWOOD ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCEElementary · 1,140 students
- AVANT GARDE ACADEMY OF BROWARDHigh · 1,122 students
- AVANT GARDE ACADEMY K-5 BROWARDElementary · 959 students
Other Apollo Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Apollo Middle. APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- Apollo MiddleAntioch, TN · 549 students
- Apollo Middle SchoolTucson, AZ · 480 students
Nearby schools
- HOLLYWOOD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 408
- BOULEVARD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY0.5 mi · 566
- SHERIDAN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 478
- MCARTHUR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,866
- WEST HOLLYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 414
- DRIFTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 426
Frequently asked questions
About APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL?
APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,143 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 54 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.3:1.
How diverse is APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL?
APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 8% White, 51% Hispanic, 34% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL?
APOLLO MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by BROWARD in Broward County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.