List of middle schools in Miami-Dade County

The Miami-Dade County Public Schools district has 55 middle schools. This page shows first a list of names and then a more descriptive list of some middle schools.

Simple list of middle schools in the district

These middle schools serve [T] grades 6-8 with exceptions as noted (names in boldface are the subject of sections of this article):

Allapattah Middle School Andover Middle School Arvida Middle School Brownsville Middle School Campbell Drive Middle School Carol City Middle School Centennial Middle School Charles R. Drew Middle School Citrus Grove Middle School Country Club Middle School Cutler Ridge Middle School Doral Middle School George Washington Carver Middle School Glades Middle School Hammocks Middle School Henry H. Filer Herbert A. Ammons Middle School Hialeah Middle School Hialeah Gardens Middle School Highland Oaks Middle School Homestead Middle School Horace Mann Middle School - Grades 6-8; technology magnet Howard A. Doolin Howard D. McMillan Middle School John F. Kennedy Middle School Jose de Diego Middle School Jose Marti Middle School Jorge Mas Canosa Middle School Kinloch Park Middle School Lake Stevens Middle School Lamar Louise Curry Middle School BPPO

Lawton Chiles Middle School Madison Middle School Mays Middle School Miami Edison Middle School Miami Lakes Middle School Miami Springs Middle School Nautilus Middle School Norland Middle School North Dade Middle School North Miami Middle School Palm Springs Middle School Palmetto Middle School Parkway Middle School Paul W. Bell Middle School Ponce de Leon Middle School Redland Middle School Richmond Heights Middle School Riviera Middle School Rockway Middle School Ruben Dario Middle School Shenandoah Middle School South Dade Middle School - Grades 4-8 South Miami Middle Community School Southwood Middle School Thomas Jefferson Middle School - Grades 7-9 W.R. Thomas Middle School West Miami Middle School Westview Middle School Zelda Glazer Middle School

Middle schools without their own articles

Highland Oaks Middle School

Highland Oaks Middle School is located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and serves grades 6-8. The school is extremely overcrowded, it housed more than 2,200 students as of the beginning of the school year. On October 16, 2006, all sixth graders, about 700, transferred to HOM West, the school's branch built at a former K-mart store to relieve some of the overcrowding.

The school is in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, with a North Miami Beach address, and serves the cities of Aventura and Sunny Isles Beach.

The school is also a hurricane shelter. It is one of two hurricane animal shelters in the county.

HOMS students are required to wear school uniforms.

highland oaks closed its west campus and gave it to Dr.Michael Krop high school for the 9th graders. At the end of the school year they have the spirit week, which finishes with a field day(a day when they set a fair on the schools field behind the school)eighth graders also enjoy the graduation party or as the students call it "prom".

Ponce De Leon Middle School

Ponce De Leon Middle School is a magnet school in Coral Gables, Florida. The population (as of July 2006) is about 1,200, a drop from the 1,400 students enrolled in 2005. The school receives both area students magnet students who wish to come for its three-year International Baccalaurate (IB) program and its International Studies (IS) programs. The school also offers a full-time gifted program.

The school was founded in 1924 by Robertson Olsen. It was originally a high school and later became a middle school. Unlike many area schools, Ponce has block classes (3 periods a day alternating) rather than 6 classes a day.

Rockway Middle School

Rockway Middle School is located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA. Rockway Middle has been an A+ school since 2000 and has placed first in the county for attendance. Their chess team won 1st place in the 2006 Nationals event in California and has often won state and regional championships. The school has over 1500 students. The school's mascot is the Falcon and the school colors are brown and gold. The current principal is Mrs. Jo Anne Gans and the school requires a school uniform. Rockway also has a block schedule of Monday all classes Tuesday periods 2,4,6 Wednesday 1,3,5 Thursday 2,4,6 & Friday 1,3,5. This is only changed if there is early release which in that situation it is commonly 6,2,4 or 5,1,3. Rockway also has different teams like 6th grade Wildcats, 6th grade Twisters, 7th grade Panthers, 7th grade Knights, 8th grade Bulldogs, 8th grade Phantoms, & gifted Cobras.

Ruben Dario Middle School

Ruben Dario Middle School (RDMS) is a public school in Miami, Florida. It has around 850 to 900 students. The school mascot is the cougar.

Shenandoah Middle School

Shenandoah Middle School is a public-magnet middle school in the historic Shenandoah section of Miami, Florida. It offers a Museum Magnet program for grades 6-8.^[1] The curriculum of a Museum Magnet is based on close collaboration with museums for educational expertise and resources.

Shenandoah partners with these museums:

Dade Heritage Trust Program Historical Museum of Southern Florida

Lowe Art Museum-Univ. of Miami Miami Art Museum

The Wolfsonian-FIU

Notes

1. ^ http://shenandoahmiddle.dadeschools.net/museums_magnet.asp