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Enrollment
957
Middle
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000565
HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
13100 SW 59TH ST, MIAMI, FL 33183 · (305) 385-6877 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL957 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% of Florida public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
19.5:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
418 students
DISTRICT 50% · 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 | 340 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 315 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 302 | 32% |
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL→MIAMI SUNSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from MIAMI-DADE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
64.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
67.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.3% | 67.7% |
| 2023-24 | 57.3% | 60.3% |
% 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
64.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% 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 HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (64.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 957 | 43.7% | 64.5% |
| ARVIDA MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 989 | 38.5% | 74.6% |
| LAMAR LOUISE CURRY MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 718 | 45.0% | 61.4% |
| PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL CORAL GABLES | 778 | 49.6% | 51.4% |
| JORGE MAS CANOSA MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 1,019 | 52.8% | 65.0% |
| GOLDEN GATE MIDDLE SCHOOL NAPLES | 1,039 | 44.8% | 53.1% |
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 HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.5% | #155 of 560 | #24 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.7% | #175 of 560 ▲ 39 | #27 of 72 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.3% | #155 of 560 ▲ 14 | #24 of 72 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 957 | #175 of 584 | #13 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.5:1 | #299 of 547 | #29 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.7% | #538 of 553 | #55 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.7% | #383 of 565 | #58 of 72 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.1% | #329 of 379 | #45 of 49 |
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
957
+44 (+5%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 1,880
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
was 17.9:1
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 | 957 | 49 | 19.5:1 | 44% (418) |
| 2023-24 | 890 | 49 | 18.2:1 | 51% (453) |
| 2022-23 | 865 | 44 | 19.7:1 | 60% (520) |
| 2020-21 | 913 | 51 | 17.9:1 | 76% (695) |
| 2017-18 | 998 | 54 | 18.5:1 | 73% (724) |
| 2015-16 | 889 | 52 | 17.1:1 | 79% (702) |
| 2010-11 | 870 | 51 | 17.1:1 | 79% (691) |
| 2000-01 | 1,746 | 68 | 25.7:1 | 59% (1,025) |
| 1990-91 | 1,880 | 88 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the public schools in MIAMI, Florida. It is a medium-sized middle-grades school. Grades offered run from 6 through 8, with 957 students enrolled. An average school in this group (middle schools in Florida) has about 794 students.
HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one school in MIAMI-DADE, a system of 527 schools with 335,685 students.
Hispanic students are the large majority at HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 96% of enrollment. Next come 2% White. That compares with about 69% Hispanic among all Miami-Dade County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 9%.
HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 19.5:1. Middle schools in Florida average about 19.6:1, a similar figure. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 44% in 2024-25.
HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 76% 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, HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 5.3 points above its prediction. Actual: 64.5%. Predicted: 59.3%.
County data help place the school in context: in Miami-Dade County, median household income is about $71,753, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is among the 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County.
The school nearest to HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is ACADEMIR PREPARATORY ACADEMY, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. Within five miles of HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 73.7%; HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL's is 64.5%, ranking 6th of 9.
In the federal locale system, HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 957, 5% above the 913 of 2020-21. Students per teacher rose from 17.9 in 2020-21 to 19.5 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Miami-Dade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,738,356
Census ACS
Median income
$71,753
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
561
335,817 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in MIAMI
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,618 students
- SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,599 students
- G. HOLMES BRADDOCK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,291 students
Nearby schools
- ACADEMIR PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.4 mi · 396
- ACADEMIR CHARTER SCHOOL MIDDLE0.4 mi · 299
- ROYAL GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 371
- MIAMI SUNSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 979
- ARCHIMEDEAN ACADEMY1.0 mi · 644
- ARCHIMEDEAN UPPER CONSERVATORY1.1 mi · 306
Frequently asked questions
About HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 957 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 19.5:1 (49 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 96% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
HOWARD D. MCMILLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
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