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Enrollment
783
Middle
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039008223
IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL
651 W 20TH ST, HIALEAH, FL 33010 · (305) 805-5722 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL783 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 67% 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.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
25.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
600 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 | 254 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 276 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 253 | 32% |
Student demographics
4%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
56.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.1pp since 2023
Math
62.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.9% | 62.1% |
| 2023-24 | 50.9% | 55.5% |
% 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
54.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL
IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (54.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 783 | 76.6% | 54.0% |
| HENRY H. FILER MIDDLE SCHOOL HIALEAH | 732 | 71.9% | 42.0% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 594 | 79.1% | 67.8% |
| MATER ACADEMY LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL HIALEAH | 870 | 68.2% | 66.5% |
| MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL HIALEAH GARDENS | 1,219 | 83.9% | 71.6% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) HOMESTEAD | 484 | 81.8% | 56.1% |
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 IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #273 of 560 | #36 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.1% | #231 of 560 ▲ 34 | #32 of 72 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.9% | #242 of 560 no change | #36 of 72 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 783 | #310 of 584 | #19 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.3:1 | #530 of 547 | #61 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 3.5% | #549 of 553 | #66 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.6% | #29 of 565 | #9 of 72 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.6% | #345 of 379 | #47 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
783
-65 (-8%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
25.3:1
was 25.7:1
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 | 783 | 31 | 25.3:1 | 77% (600) |
| 2023-24 | 783 | N/A | N/A | 87% (682) |
| 2022-23 | 741 | 11 | 67.4:1 | 89% (660) |
| 2020-21 | 848 | 33 | 25.7:1 | 93% (789) |
| 2017-18 | 804 | 30 | 26.8:1 | 89% (715) |
| 2015-16 | 806 | 36 | 22.4:1 | 90% (723) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL
IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle school in HIALEAH, Florida, one of the schools in MIAMI-DADE. The school enrolls 783 students in grades 6 through 8.
MIAMI-DADE is the district for IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL. It has 527 schools and 335,685 students.
Roughly 98% of students at IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL are Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County residents are about 69% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 4%.
There are 31 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 25.3:1. Across middle schools in Florida, the average ratio is 19.6:1. Of all students at IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL, 77% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County, the school's rate is higher.
Among Florida public middle schools, IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 67%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 11.2 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (54.0% versus 42.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Florida.
The school is in Miami-Dade County, where the median household earns about $71,753 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Miami-Dade County with 560 other public schools.
IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is IMATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 54.0% is above the 49.2% average for nearby schools.
IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.
An 8% decline took enrollment from 848 in 2020-21 to 783 in 2024-25.
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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 HIALEAH
- HIALEAH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- AMERICAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,582 students
- PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,422 students
- HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,367 students
- MATER ACADEMY LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,201 students
- MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTERElementary · 1,196 students
Nearby schools
- IMATER PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 994
- IMATER ACADEMY0.1 mi · 590
- JAMES H. BRIGHT ELEMENTARY/J.W. JOHNSON ELEMENTARY0.6 mi · 452
- BRIGHTVIEW PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.6 mi · 112
- HENRY H. FILER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 732
- MIAMI SPRINGS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,037
Frequently asked questions
About IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 783 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 25.3:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian.
Who oversees IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
IMATER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by MIAMI-DADE in Miami-Dade County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.