SOUTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOL

SOUTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOL is an intermediate school of expansive scale in HOMESTEAD, Florida, overseen by MIAMI-DADE, works with 1,304 students in grades 4 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 64% bigger than typical.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. SOUTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SOUTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). The remainder breaks down as 10% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Miami-Dade County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of -4.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), SOUTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is REDONDO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SOUTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.6%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOL has expanded 9%, going from 1,195 students in 2018 to 1,304 in 2025.

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