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What's something PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
778
Middle
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000577
PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL
5801 AUGUSTO ST, CORAL GABLES, FL 33146 · (305) 661-1611 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL778 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% 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.
- C+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
18.5:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
386 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 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 265 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 298 | 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
Students here typically continue to
PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL→CORAL GABLES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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
53.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.1pp since 2023
Math
53.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +10.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.5% | 53.6% |
| 2023-24 | 46.4% | 42.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
51.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL
PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (51.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 778 | 49.6% | 51.4% |
| KISSIMMEE MIDDLE SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 892 | 51.8% | 41.1% |
| JORGE MAS CANOSA MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 1,019 | 52.8% | 65.0% |
| LAMAR LOUISE CURRY MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 718 | 45.0% | 61.4% |
| KINLOCH PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 746 | 54.4% | 36.7% |
| WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 599 | 51.6% | 39.4% |
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 PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #310 of 560 | #43 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.6% | #327 of 560 ▲ 76 | #40 of 72 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.5% | #286 of 560 ▲ 22 | #40 of 72 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 778 | #314 of 584 | #20 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.5:1 | #206 of 547 | #24 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.9% | #519 of 553 | #37 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.6% | #305 of 565 | #49 of 72 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.5% | #32 of 379 | #10 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
778
-248 (-24%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 762
Student : Teacher
18.5:1
was 19.4:1
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 | 778 | 42 | 18.5:1 | 50% (386) |
| 2023-24 | 755 | 45 | 16.8:1 | 56% (422) |
| 2022-23 | 888 | 49 | 18.1:1 | 60% (530) |
| 2020-21 | 1,026 | 53 | 19.4:1 | 83% (850) |
| 2017-18 | 1,206 | 62 | 19.4:1 | 80% (959) |
| 2015-16 | 1,195 | 61 | 19.6:1 | 81% (964) |
| 2010-11 | 1,172 | 70 | 16.7:1 | 76% (894) |
| 2000-01 | 1,261 | 63 | 20.0:1 | 66% (828) |
| 1990-91 | 762 | 41 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL
PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle-grades school in CORAL GABLES, Florida, under MIAMI-DADE. Enrolled students number 778 students, in grades 6 through 8.
The 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE enroll 335,685 students altogether, PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
About 87% of the student body at PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL is Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 7% Black and 5% White. In Miami-Dade County overall, about 69% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 23% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
At PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL, 42 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 18.5:1. That is 1.1 students per teacher below the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 50% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Miami-Dade County average 48%.
The allk12 Grade for PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL is C+. Compared with Florida public middle schools, the school scored higher than 41% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 51.4% and a predicted 56.3%.
Among Miami-Dade County residents, the median household income is $71,753, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Besides PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL, Miami-Dade County has 560 other public schools.
The shortest distance from PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 8th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Enrollment is down 24% from 2020-21, when PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL had 1,026 students, to 2024-25, when it had 778.
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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 CORAL GABLES
- CORAL GABLES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,894 students
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 941 students
- CORAL GABLES PREPARATORY ACADEMYElementary · 812 students
- GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 563 students
- SOMERSET GABLES ACADEMYElementary · 556 students
- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMYHigh · 375 students
Nearby schools
- HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 373
- SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,192
- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY1.0 mi · 375
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 941
- GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 563
- SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH MIAMI CAMPUS)1.2 mi · 491
Frequently asked questions
About PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 778 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 18.5:1 students per teacher at PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 5% White, 87% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian.
Who oversees PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by MIAMI-DADE in Miami-Dade County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.