CAROL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in MIAMI GARDENS, Florida, CAROL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a compact intermediate school, operated by MIAMI-DADE. It instructs 411 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 48% smaller than the state mean of about 794.

CAROL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that serves 335,685 students overall.

In terms of who attends, CAROL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (80%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 18% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 15% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CAROL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.2%, the actual is 50.7%, a residual of +4.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Miami-Dade County shows median household earnings sit near $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. CAROL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

The closest other public school is BARBARA HAWKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CAROL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CAROL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.

CAROL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CAROL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL has increased 22%, going from 337 students in 2018 to 411 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.

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