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What's something SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
1,014
Middle
DISTRICT 883 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROWARD·NCES 120018000263
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
6200 SW 16TH ST, PLANTATION, FL 33317 · (754) 323-4200 · Broward County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,014 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.3:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
336 students
DISTRICT 42% · 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 | 298 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 363 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 353 | 35% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
57.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +8.3pp since 2023
Math
61.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.6% | 61.3% |
| 2023-24 | 49.3% | 53.0% |
% 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
57.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (57.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,014 | 33.1% | 57.0% |
| RAMBLEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 1,005 | 33.7% | 64.6% |
| SAWGRASS SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 946 | 32.5% | 60.2% |
| FOREST GLEN MIDDLE SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 1,037 | 37.3% | 58.5% |
| GOTHA MIDDLE WINDERMERE | 988 | 36.8% | 56.5% |
| WOODLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL LAKE WORTH | 1,307 | 39.5% | 53.8% |
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 SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Broward County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #223 of 560 | #24 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.3% | #238 of 560 ▲ 53 | #22 of 47 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #229 of 560 ▲ 35 | #23 of 47 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,014 | #140 of 584 | #18 of 48 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #232 of 547 | #6 of 41 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.5% | #61 of 553 | #4 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.1% | #455 of 565 | #34 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.6% | #189 of 379 | #22 of 34 |
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
1,014
-163 (-14%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 1,202
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 20.3:1
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 | 1,014 | 54 | 18.8:1 | 33% (336) |
| 2023-24 | 1,068 | 52 | 20.5:1 | 42% (445) |
| 2022-23 | 1,072 | 55 | 19.5:1 | 53% (573) |
| 2020-21 | 1,177 | 58 | 20.3:1 | 52% (609) |
| 2017-18 | 1,187 | 65 | 18.3:1 | 57% (676) |
| 2015-16 | 1,178 | 62 | 19.0:1 | 54% (642) |
| 2010-11 | 1,281 | 76 | 16.9:1 | 55% (704) |
| 2000-01 | 1,261 | 61 | 20.7:1 | 39% (486) |
| 1990-91 | 1,202 | 57 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle-grades school in Florida, located in PLANTATION. Enrollment is 1,014 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 6 through 8. The average for middle schools in Florida is about 794 students, so this school is 28% larger than average.
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 325 schools in BROWARD, which enrolls 243,591 students in total.
At SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, the largest share of students is Black, at 38%. The next largest groups are 34% Hispanic, 21% White, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The school's Black share is 10 points above the 28% share among Broward County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.8:1 at SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 54 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 0.8 below the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 33%.
After adjusting for student poverty, SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 57.0%; the prediction is 64.6%.
Federal survey data for Broward County show that the median household income is $77,633, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Broward County is home to 338 public schools and about 244,502 public school students.
The shortest distance from SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.2 miles, to TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in 5th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment declined 14% from its 2020-21 level of 1,177. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.3:1 in 2020-21 to 18.8:1 in 2024-25.
Community posts for SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Broward County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,977,129
Census ACS
Median income
$77,633
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
338
244,502 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BROWARD
- CYPRESS BAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,579 students
- WESTERN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,510 students
- MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,089 students
- CORAL GLADES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,843 students
- WEST BROWARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,492 students
- J. P. TARAVELLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,436 students
Other schools in PLANTATION
- SOUTH PLANTATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,303 students
- PLANTATION HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,696 students
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT PLANTATIONElementary · 933 students
- CENTRAL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 800 students
- TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 791 students
- MIRROR LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 639 students
Other Seminole Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Seminole Middle. SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOLSEMINOLE, FL · 752 students
- Seminole Middle SchoolSeminole, OK · 178 students
Nearby schools
- TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 791
- SOUTH PLANTATION HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 2,303
- PLANTATION PARK ELEMENTARY0.8 mi · 492
- MCFATTER TECHNICAL COLLEGE1.2 mi · 596
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 693
- ANN STORCK CENTER INC.1.6 mi · 19
Frequently asked questions
About SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,014 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 18.8:1 students per teacher at SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 21% White, 34% Hispanic, 38% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of BROWARD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.