Ponce De Leon Middle School

This is our 3rd year at Ponce and we continue to be impressed by not only the curriculum of the IB Program but the quality of the Ponce teachers and administrators. They are a team of motivated and dedicated academics striving to ensure our kids succeed. Our son is very proud of his school, as are we. We highly recommend Ponce to any family looking for an excellent education, administered by a highly professional team.
--Submitted by a parent

Great school. I would not want to work anywhere else. It is a true representation of the excellence that can be produced when everyone works together.
--Submitted by a teacher

My son has excelled at Ponce De Leon Middle School. The teachers are professional, attentive nd serious about teaching. The teachers earnthe respect of the students because it is apparent that they care. The principal is energetic, motivated and positive about the future of the students. The PTSA is envolved and has made great strides in bring community to this schoold. The IB program is challenging and is providing a well rounded view of the world, politics and economics that the students need to be sucessful in the future. I would recommend Ponce De Leon Middle school to any student that is serious about their acedemic future.u
--Submitted by a parent

An excellent education by a caring teacher group; and advanced curriculum which will be respected when my child applies for college; the chance to play sports, make friends, perform music in concerts; all of this and more is what Ponce offers. My 7th grader has advanced tremendously in the program, and is learning more than I could have imagined. As a result of the excellent teaching in this advanced program (the IB program), my child will complete high school (yes, they plan ahead that far ahead) with much of his first year of college credits completed, saving costs for us, and giving him greater opportunities to advance there, as well. They took a field trip to the Everglades, learn languages, and study guitar. There are art programs and other great opportunities. If you are looking for a school program that can help your child have a well rounded education, and social network building, this school is a wonderful choice. As for the test scores, consider that the school is only partial magnet, so the scores are for the entire school. The magnet only program would have awesome scores, if they could be shown alone. What would I change? More parents getting involved more often.
--Submitted by a parent

I am so proud to say that my daughter chose Ponce, out if her many choices for middle school. I am extremely happy with her performance and mostly for the performance of her teachers! I was concerned about where Skylar would go to middle school and was very confused by our choices. Skylar was very interested in going to South Miami and was accepted but after weighing her options and all the benefits of the IB program she chose Ponce. I wad extremely happy with her decision and really feel she made the right choice! I think Ponce has so much more to offer her than any other option we had and she has had the best two years of het life there! She has amazing, well rounded respectable friends that I am so happy for her to have as piers! I find the program challenging for my intelligent child but also a place where she has made friends for life! I give her experience an "a" and will recommend this school to everyone !
--Submitted by a parent

As a parent of an incoming seventh grader I give Ponce de Leon Middle an excellent rating. My son excelled academically and made lots of new friends during his sixth grade year. The IB teachers are caring, involved, and responsive. The IB coordinator and all the administrators are hands on professionals who will strive to help your child on an individual basis. Ponce is a great school!
--Submitted by a parent

Ponce is an exceptional school. The teachers are caring and proactive. The leadership team is also exceptional and extremely student and parent centered. It is one of the finest schools in teh area. The IB programme is a notch above all the rest.
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this school in all honesty is filled with empty minded students, trust me i wasted 3 years of my teenage life there for no reason...this school does not give student the option to explore the arts, let alone sports. the teachers are lazy most of the times, i attended Ponce since 2005-2006 (6 grade) 2006-2007(7th grade) and 2007-2008 (8th grade) i am now a Senior at South Miami Senior High for the School of the Arts for Fine Art, and DO NOT RECOMMEND TO ANY PARENT to send their child to this middle school...my brother is the most recent of our family to have left Ponce, me and my sister and 3 other cousins beofre us have gone there...during the years of my cousins up until my years the school has been moderate enough for a good educaton, but now my parents are truly disappointed that my brother was not challenged enough in his stuides, everything was to easy...and to prove that we're not slaker children, my older sister will now be graduating from FIU with a double major in marketing and accounting, i go to South Miami Senior High for Fine Art and my brother will now be moving on to Miami Coral Park for engineering

HI ! its ASHLEY AMAYA & ALEXANDRA VELASCO speaking ! PONCE DE LEON middle is an AMAZING school. We should know , WE GRADUATED from there ! we are class of 2009-2010 <3 which makes us now freshman at coral gables senior high. Well alexandra's favorite part of ponce de leon was the people because their all DOUGIE which means'' fresh '' (: & My favorite part of ponce de leon middle was the teachers and how cool they were with us when 8th graders ruled the schooll ;D & LAST BUT NOT LEAST MINE & ALEXANDRAS favorite part of ponce de leon middle was MR.MELTON ! BEST MATH TEACHER OF LIFE ! without him we would'nt of made it to highschool and yet till this day me & alexandra have intensive math againn <3 well we recommened your students to go to PONCE DE LEON !

it is awesome. so many clubs , great teachers, and a nice staff.
--Submitted by a parent