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Enrollment
518
Middle
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039008615
MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
22025 SW 87TH AVE, CUTLER BAY, FL 33190 · (305) 969-5989 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL518 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of Florida public middle schools
- A+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
,
0 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
273 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 | 181 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 181 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 156 | 30% |
Student demographics
23%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
84.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
91.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.3% | 91.2% |
| 2023-24 | 81.2% | 88.8% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
86.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+31.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 31 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (86.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 518 | 52.7% | 86.1% |
| RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 479 | 53.9% | 57.6% |
| PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 483 | 52.4% | 55.9% |
| RUBEN DARIO MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 484 | 51.4% | 50.9% |
| W. R. THOMAS MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 507 | 55.2% | 49.9% |
| LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL HIALEAH | 514 | 52.5% | 50.3% |
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 MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.1% | #17 of 560 | #8 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 91.2% | #18 of 560 ▲ 4 | #9 of 72 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.3% | #21 of 560 ▼ 1 | #9 of 72 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 518 | #467 of 584 | #39 of 75 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.6% | #521 of 553 | #39 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.7% | #263 of 565 | #44 of 72 |
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
518
+80 (+18%) vs 2020
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 | 518 | N/A | N/A | 53% (273) |
| 2023-24 | 487 | 1 | 487.0:1 | 59% (285) |
| 2022-23 | 451 | 9 | 50.1:1 | 56% (251) |
| 2020-21 | 438 | N/A | N/A | 67% (293) |
| 2017-18 | 93 | 2 | 46.5:1 | 34% (32) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL
MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small middle school in Florida, with an address in CUTLER BAY. The school's enrollment of 518 students covers grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 35% lower than the average for middle schools in Florida, which is about 794.
In MIAMI-DADE, 527 schools enroll a combined 335,685 students.
Hispanic students are the large majority at MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 88% of enrollment. Other groups include 6% White and 4% Black. By comparison, Miami-Dade County residents are about 69% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 23%.
About 53% of students, or 273, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
allk12 grades MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL an A+. The grade compares the school only with Florida public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations places MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL in the top 10% of Florida schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 31.3 points above it (86.1% actual, 54.8% predicted).
Miami-Dade County has about 2,738,356 residents, and median household income is about $71,753, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County, with a combined enrollment of about 335,817.
The school nearest to MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is MATER ACADEMY BAY ELEMENTARY, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 1st in a group of 9 nearby schools.
MATER ACADEMY BAY 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.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 518 was 18% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 438.
If you have questions about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 CUTLER BAY
- CUTLER BAY MIDDLEMiddle · 935 students
- MATER ACADEMY BAY ELEMENTARYElementary · 917 students
- DR. EDWARD L. WHIGHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 731 students
- CUTLER BAY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 590 students
- GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 544 students
- CORAL REEF MONTESSORI ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 521 students
Nearby schools
- MATER ACADEMY BAY ELEMENTARY0.0 mi · 917
- MATER ACADEMY BAY HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 390
- DR. EDWARD L. WHIGHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 731
- CUTLER BAY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 590
- GULFSTREAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 544
- CUTLER RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 430
Frequently asked questions
About MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 518 students in grades 06-08.
Is MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately unreported students per teacher at MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 6% White, 88% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
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