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What's the one class at RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
479
Middle
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039000580
RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL
10301 SW 48TH ST, MIAMI, FL 33165 · (305) 226-4286 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL479 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 65% 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.
- 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
17.1:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
258 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 | 147 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 133 | 28% |
| Grade 8 | 199 | 42% |
Student demographics
9%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
RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL→SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGH
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
54.8%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.8pp since 2023
Math
54.1%
FL avg 58.9% . -2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 55 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.8% | 54.1% |
| 2023-24 | 52.0% | 56.3% |
% 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
57.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL
RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (57.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 479 | 53.9% | 57.6% |
| W. R. THOMAS MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 507 | 55.2% | 49.9% |
| PAUL W. BELL MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 483 | 52.4% | 55.9% |
| RUBEN DARIO MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI | 484 | 51.4% | 50.9% |
| MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL CUTLER BAY | 518 | 52.7% | 86.1% |
| 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 RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #217 of 560 | #30 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #316 of 560 ▼ 61 | #38 of 72 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.8% | #265 of 560 ▼ 35 | #38 of 72 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 479 | #484 of 584 | #49 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #99 of 547 | #13 of 69 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.9% | #537 of 553 | #54 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.9% | #250 of 565 | #42 of 72 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.5% | #276 of 379 | #36 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
479
-4 (-1%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 1,038
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 479 | 28 | 17.1:1 | 54% (258) |
| 2023-24 | 478 | 29 | 16.5:1 | 58% (278) |
| 2022-23 | 504 | 28 | 18.0:1 | 63% (318) |
| 2020-21 | 483 | 30 | 16.1:1 | 84% (404) |
| 2017-18 | 518 | 31 | 16.7:1 | 76% (394) |
| 2015-16 | 597 | 32 | 18.7:1 | 83% (494) |
| 2010-11 | 794 | 51 | 15.6:1 | 82% (648) |
| 2000-01 | 1,166 | 62 | 18.8:1 | 56% (652) |
| 1990-91 | 1,038 | 66 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL
RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL, located in MIAMI, Florida, is a low-enrollment middle school. School enrollment was 479 students in 2024-25, in grades 6 through 8. The average among middle schools in Florida is roughly 794 students; this school is 40% smaller than that.
MIAMI-DADE enrolls 335,685 students in 527 schools, including RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Hispanic students make up 95% of enrollment at RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL. Smaller groups are 2% Black. For comparison, the population of Miami-Dade County is roughly 69% Hispanic. RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL's diversity index is 9%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL total 28 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 17.1:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida. The school counts 258 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 54%.
allk12 grades RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL a B+. The grade compares the school only with Florida public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 57.6%; the prediction is 54.2%.
In the county around the school, Miami-Dade County, the median household income is $71,753, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Miami-Dade County is home to 561 public schools and about 335,817 public school students.
The closest public school, TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile from RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL is 8th among 9 schools close by.
In the federal locale system, RIVIERA 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.
RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL had 483 students in 2020-21 and 479 in 2024-25, nearly the same. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 16.1:1 to 17.1:1.
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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
- TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 367
- PINECREST COVE ACADEMY0.3 mi · 938
- BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY SOUTH0.8 mi · 453
- OLYMPIA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 318
- ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 514
- CYPRESS K-8 CENTER1.0 mi · 376
Frequently asked questions
About RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 479 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.1:1 students per teacher at RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL?
RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 2% White, 95% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian.
Is RIVIERA MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
RIVIERA 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.