ROCKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL

ROCKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier middle schools in MIAMI, Florida, operated by MIAMI-DADE, with 888 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Within MIAMI-DADE, which oversees 527 schools and 335,685 students, ROCKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, ROCKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 69% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ROCKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting ROCKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROCKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.4%; this one delivers 60.9%.

Around the school, Miami-Dade County reports that median household income runs about $71,753, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. ROCKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).

ROCKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROCKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROCKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 61.5%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 23%: 1,148 students in 2018 compared to 888 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 today.

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