Miami Middle School

Miami Middle School is a junior high of compact scale in Fort Wayne, Indiana, run under Fort Wayne Community Schools, instructing 496 students in grades 6 through 8.

Fort Wayne Community Schools comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 28,561 students; Miami Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Miami Middle School records that the most-represented group is Black (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 20% Hispanic, 19% White, 19% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Miami Middle School logs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. About 73% 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, Allen County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Miami Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.9%, the actual is 12.5%, a residual of -11.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Allen County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,737 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Allen County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,262 students), Miami Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Maplewood Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Miami Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 23.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 551 students in 2018 compared to 496 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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