LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL

LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a compact 6-8 campus in HIALEAH, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE. Current enrollment sits at 514 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 35% below that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 15% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.9%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of -4.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Miami-Dade County reports that median household earnings sit near $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), LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SPANISH LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 71.7%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL has ticked down 41%, going from 878 students in 2018 to 514 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 73% to 82%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

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