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Enrollment
483
Middle
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039003051
PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL
11800 NW 2ND ST, MIAMI, FL 33182 · (305) 220-2075 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL483 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 58% of Florida public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
17.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
253 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 | 128 | 27% |
| Grade 7 | 174 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 181 | 37% |
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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL→G. HOLMES BRADDOCK 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
53.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +9.6pp since 2023
Math
64.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.4% | 64.8% |
| 2023-24 | 43.8% | 59.0% |
% 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
55.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL
PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (55.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 483 | 52.4% | 55.9% |
| RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 479 | 53.9% | 57.6% |
| RUBEN DARIO MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 484 | 51.4% | 50.9% |
| W. R. THOMAS MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 507 | 55.2% | 49.9% |
| WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 599 | 51.6% | 39.4% |
| MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL CUTLER BAY | 518 | 52.7% | 86.1% |
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 PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.9% | #243 of 560 | #34 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.8% | #207 of 560 ▲ 21 | #30 of 72 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #287 of 560 ▲ 52 | #41 of 72 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 483 | #482 of 584 | #48 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #151 of 547 | #18 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.1% | #548 of 553 | #65 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.4% | #268 of 565 | #46 of 72 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.4% | #94 of 137 | #10 of 13 |
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
483
+71 (+17%) vs 2020
-75% since 2000-01, when it was 1,934
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 483 | 27 | 17.9:1 | 52% (253) |
| 2023-24 | 529 | 31 | 17.1:1 | 55% (289) |
| 2022-23 | 486 | 29 | 16.8:1 | 58% (283) |
| 2020-21 | 412 | 30 | 13.7:1 | 86% (356) |
| 2017-18 | 454 | 28 | 16.2:1 | 79% (359) |
| 2015-16 | 501 | 29 | 17.3:1 | 87% (435) |
| 2010-11 | 756 | 45 | 16.8:1 | 90% (679) |
| 2000-01 | 1,934 | 77 | 25.1:1 | 67% (1,302) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL
As a small middle school, PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students in MIAMI, Florida. It reports enrollment of 483 students in grades 6 through 8. Across middle schools in Florida, the average enrollment is about 794.
MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools with a combined 335,685 students. PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of them.
Hispanic students account for 98% of the school's enrollment. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 69%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 4, compared with 70 nationally.
PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL reported 27 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 17.9:1. Middle schools in Florida have an average ratio of 19.6:1. Roughly 52% of students at PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL can receive free or reduced-price lunch.
PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 58% of Florida public middle schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL, the prediction is 54.9% and the result is 55.9%.
Census data for Miami-Dade County show the median household earns about $71,753 a year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL, Miami-Dade County has 561 public schools.
MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS ELEM sits about 0.1 miles from PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in 6th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 483, from 412 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.7:1 to 17.9:1 over the same years.
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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 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
- MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS ELEM0.1 mi · 554
- DR. CARLOS J. FINLAY ELEMENTARY0.8 mi · 540
- ACADEMY FOR ADVANCED ACADEMICS1.1 mi · 136
- WESLEY MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 490
- SWEETWATER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 463
- PINECREST ACADEMY (NORTH CAMPUS)1.6 mi · 468
Frequently asked questions
About PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 483 students in grades 06-08.
Is PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 17.9:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 1% Black.
What district is PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.