RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL

RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the low-enrollment junior highs in MIAMI, Florida, run under MIAMI-DADE, with 479 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 40% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

Across the 527 schools in MIAMI-DADE (335,685 students total), RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). Beyond that, the school lists 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.2%, the actual is 57.6%, a residual of +3.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Miami-Dade County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,753, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Miami-Dade County runs 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), of which RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 518 (now 479). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 91% to 95%.

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