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What's the biggest difference between PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
698
Middle
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000574
PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL
1025 W 56TH ST, HIALEAH, FL 33012 · (305) 821-2460 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL698 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% of Florida public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
14.0:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
429 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 | 215 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 226 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 257 | 37% |
Student demographics
8%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
PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL→HIALEAH-MIAMI LAKES SENIOR HIGH
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
32.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
39.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.4% | 39.9% |
| 2023-24 | 31.5% | 32.3% |
% 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
41.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% 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 PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL
PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (41.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 698 | 61.5% | 41.9% |
| WEBB MIDDLE SCHOOL TAMPA | 782 | 62.0% | 38.5% |
| MIAMI SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI SPRINGS | 666 | 59.8% | 37.9% |
| HIALEAH MIDDLE SCHOOL HIALEAH | 1,002 | 60.2% | 47.4% |
| KINLOCH PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 746 | 54.4% | 36.7% |
| PINECREST ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 494 | 58.1% | 76.2% |
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 PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.9% | #443 of 560 | #61 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #483 of 560 ▲ 24 | #64 of 72 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.4% | #513 of 560 ▼ 32 | #66 of 72 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 698 | #377 of 584 | #28 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #6 of 547 | #1 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.8% | #542 of 553 | #59 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.5% | #149 of 565 | #21 of 72 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.1% | #37 of 379 | #12 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
698
-28 (-4%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 1,429
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 698 | 50 | 14.0:1 | 61% (429) |
| 2023-24 | 794 | 52 | 15.3:1 | 65% (514) |
| 2022-23 | 782 | 53 | 14.8:1 | 71% (559) |
| 2020-21 | 726 | 54 | 13.4:1 | 89% (646) |
| 2017-18 | 1,043 | 68 | 15.3:1 | 89% (924) |
| 2015-16 | 1,032 | 60 | 17.2:1 | 92% (952) |
| 2010-11 | 1,101 | 62 | 17.8:1 | 90% (994) |
| 2000-01 | 1,869 | 81 | 23.1:1 | 80% (1,489) |
| 1990-91 | 1,429 | 69 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL
The public middle school PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is located in HIALEAH, Florida. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 698 students in grades 6 through 8.
MIAMI-DADE, which runs PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL, has 527 schools and 335,685 students.
Hispanic students are the large majority at PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 96% of enrollment. Next come 3% Black. That compares with about 69% Hispanic among all Miami-Dade County residents. By the diversity index, PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in at 8%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 14.0:1, with 50 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida is higher than this school's figure. Lunch subsidy eligibility at PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is 61%. Compared with the 48% average for public schools in Miami-Dade County, the school's rate is higher.
The allk12 Grade for PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is C-. Compared with Florida public middle schools, the school scored higher than 21% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL would be expected to post about 50.4%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 41.9%.
Among Miami-Dade County residents, median household income is about $71,753, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County, with a combined enrollment of about 335,817.
JOHN G. DUPUIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.2 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. By average proficiency, PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is 9th among 9 schools close by.
NCES assigns PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 4%, from 726 to 698.
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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
Other Palm Springs Middle schools
One other US public school is named Palm Springs Middle. PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOLWEST PALM BEACH, FL · 1,397 students
Nearby schools
- JOHN G. DUPUIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 508
- MARCUS A. MILAM K-8 CENTER0.7 mi · 1,082
- MEADOWLANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 786
- TWIN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 325
- NORTH TWIN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 590
- MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,219
Frequently asked questions
About PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 698 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 14.0:1 (50 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 96% Hispanic, 3% Black, 0% Asian.
Is PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
PALM SPRINGS 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.