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Enrollment
656
Middle
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000571
NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL
1235 NW 192ND TER, MIAMI, FL 33169 · (305) 653-1210 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL656 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 57% 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.
- B+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
22.6:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
410 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 | 207 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 199 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 250 | 38% |
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
School pathway
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
49.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.8pp since 2023
Math
52.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.4% | 52.3% |
| 2023-24 | 43.6% | 50.0% |
% 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
53.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL
NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (53.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 656 | 62.5% | 53.3% |
| WILLIAM DANDY MIDDLE SCHOOL FORT LAUDERDALE | 620 | 66.8% | 44.4% |
| NORTH MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH MIAMI | 724 | 60.5% | 46.1% |
| CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL DELRAY BEACH | 680 | 61.2% | 31.4% |
| PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL LAUDERHILL | 883 | 64.1% | 51.6% |
| SILVER LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH LAUDERDALE | 729 | 59.4% | 40.6% |
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 NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #285 of 560 | #40 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #345 of 560 ▼ 22 | #43 of 72 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #335 of 560 ▲ 7 | #48 of 72 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 656 | #410 of 584 | #31 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.6:1 | #493 of 547 | #49 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.9% | #520 of 553 | #38 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.5% | #136 of 565 | #19 of 72 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.3% | #78 of 379 | #20 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
656
-160 (-20%) vs 2020
-55% since 1990-91, when it was 1,461
Student : Teacher
22.6:1
was 19.0:1
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 | 656 | 29 | 22.6:1 | 63% (410) |
| 2023-24 | 642 | 34 | 18.9:1 | 66% (422) |
| 2022-23 | 706 | 39 | 18.1:1 | 71% (501) |
| 2020-21 | 816 | 43 | 19.0:1 | 91% (742) |
| 2017-18 | 878 | 42 | 20.9:1 | 82% (721) |
| 2015-16 | 902 | 46 | 19.6:1 | 87% (787) |
| 2010-11 | 814 | 45 | 18.1:1 | 82% (666) |
| 2000-01 | 1,936 | 68 | 28.5:1 | 69% (1,328) |
| 1990-91 | 1,461 | 70 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL
NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a small middle school in MIAMI, Florida. Federal data show 656 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25.
MIAMI-DADE is responsible for 527 schools, NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL included, with 335,685 students in all.
Black students account for 87% of the school's enrollment. The school is also 12% Hispanic. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 15%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 23, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 22.6:1. The school has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across middle schools in Florida, the average ratio is 19.6:1. Federal data show 63% of students (410) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Miami-Dade County is 48%.
NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 57% of Florida public middle schools.
NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (53.3%) and its predicted rate (49.9%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools.
For the population of Miami-Dade County, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Across Miami-Dade County, 561 public schools serve about 335,817 students.
A public school about 0.1 miles away, MIAMI NORLAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is the closest to NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 49.4%, lower than NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL's 53.3%.
Under the NCES locale system, NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL is Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment fell by 160 students, from 816 to 656. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 19.0:1 to 22.6:1.
On allk12, people connected to NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
- MIAMI NORLAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,653
- PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 178
- NORLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 536
- NORWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 443
- CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 264
- EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF MIAMI GARDENS1.2 mi · 413
Frequently asked questions
About NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL?
NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 656 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 0% White, 12% Hispanic, 87% Black, 0% Asian.
Is NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
NORLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.