Summary:
There are two public middle schools serving grades 6-8 in zip code 33142 in Miami, Florida: Brownsville Middle School and Georgia Jones Ayers Middle School, both part of the Miami-Dade school district, which ranks in the 71st percentile statewide.
Georgia Jones Ayers Middle School stands out as the stronger performer, particularly in advanced coursework. It achieved a remarkable 93% proficiency in Algebra 1 and a perfect 100% in Biology 1 on the 2025-2026 EOC exams, far exceeding district and state averages. However, both schools face significant challenges with core academic subjects and chronic absenteeism. Brownsville Middle School has a chronic absenteeism rate of 40.3%, while Georgia Jones Ayers has an even higher rate of 55.4%, meaning more than half its students miss significant school days. Both schools rank in the bottom 13% of Florida middle schools, with average ELA proficiency around 31-39% and math proficiency around 36-39%, compared to state averages near 60%. Georgia Jones Ayers has shown improvement, moving from the 9th percentile to the 13th percentile over three years, while Brownsville Middle has remained stagnant at the 10th percentile.
A key paradox is that both schools dramatically outperform in advanced courses like Algebra 1 and Biology 1, yet severely underperform in standard FAST assessments for ELA and Math, suggesting a small group of high-achieving students excels while the majority struggles with grade-level standards. Despite Brownsville Middle spending $842 more per student ($12,811 vs. $11,969), it has a worse student-to-teacher ratio (20.7:1 vs. 17.9:1) and generally lower academic outcomes than Georgia Jones Ayers. There are glimmers of hope, as both schools showed notable year-over-year improvement in several FAST subjects from 2024-2025 to 2025-2026, such as Brownsville's 7th-grade math jumping from 18% to 38% proficiency.
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