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WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL
WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL, a low-enrollment intermediate school in MIAMI, Florida, one of the schools within MIAMI-DADE, enrolls 599 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 25% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.
WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 527 schools operated by MIAMI-DADE, a district that educates 335,685 students overall.
In terms of who attends, WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 52% of students at WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify 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, WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 55.3%; WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 39.4%, -15.9 points below that line.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Miami-Dade County) logs 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%. WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 561 public schools in Miami-Dade County (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students).
CORAL TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 60.2%.
WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL has edged down 15%, going from 703 students in 2018 to 599 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.
On the community side, the feed for WEST MIAMI MIDDLE SCHOOL typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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