Joaquin Miller Middle School, commonly referred to as Miller Middle School, is a co-educational, public middle school which teaches grades 6–8 in the West San Jose area of San Jose, California, USA near Cupertino. Miller Middle School is part of the Cupertino Union School District. Its official mascot is the Mustang. It was named after 19th century poet Joaquin Miller.

Most students come from Murdock-Portal, Blue Hills, John Muir, Meyerholz, Dilworth, Eaton, De Vargas, Faria and McAuliffe elementary schools. Most graduates of Miller Middle School go on to attend Lynbrook High School, in the Fremont Union High School District, the neighboring secondary school.

Miller is a California Distinguished School.

Miller was named after the 19th Century poet Joaquin Miller. Miller started in 1959 with a couple classrooms, quad, and library with orchards in the background. The 2009–10 school year marked Miller's 50th anniversary. Joaquin Miller also has a road named after him.

For more info: Miller Calendar

Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable. In China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Vietnam, the term middle school is used as a synonym for secondary school.^{[clarification needed]}

In Algeria, a middle school includes grades 6 through 9, consisting of students from ages 10 or 11 to 13 to 14.

In Egypt, middle school precedes high school. It is called the preparatory stage and consists of three phases: first preparatory in which students study more subjects than primary with different branches.For Instance, Mathematics is divided into Algebra and Geometry. In second preparatory students study Science, Geography, the History of Egypt starting with Pharonic history, passing by the Coptic, Islamic and finally the modern history, Also they study three different languages, Arabic is obligatory; two others are chosen as first and second languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. They study also Mathematics. Middle School (Preparatory Stage) lasts for three years. Students are given an overview about future fields of studies.

The Cupertino Union School District (CUSD) covers the city of Cupertino, California, and parts of San Jose, Sunnyvale, Saratoga, Santa Clara, and Los Altos, California. The CUSD operates twenty elementary schools (K-5) and five middle schools (6-8). The CUSD has over 720 teachers (full-time equivalents) serving more than 16,000 students.

Frank Augustus Miller (June 30, 1858 - June 17, 1935) was the owner and chief developer of the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, United States. He was also a civic leader and one of Riverside's strongest promoters.

He is buried in Riverside's Evergreen Cemetery.

Joaquin Miller was the pen name of the colorful American poet Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller (September 8, 1837 – February 17, 1913), nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras".

His parents were Hulen (sometimes "Hulings") Miller and Margaret Witt who married January 3, 1836 in Union County, Indiana. On September 8, 1837, their son Cincinnatus Hiner Miller was born near Liberty, Indiana. Miller later changed his birth date to 1841 and said he was born on a wagon going west while in Millersville, Indiana, a town he claimed was founded by his father. He also changed the date of his birth to November 10 for unknown reasons. While a young boy, the Miller family moved to Oregon and settled in the Willamette Valley, establishing a farm in what would become Lane County. Accounts differ, giving the family's move to Oregon as early as 1842, but it was probably between 1850 and 1852.

As a young man, he moved to northern California during the California Gold Rush years, and had a variety of adventures, including spending a year living in a Native American village, and being wounded in a battle with Native Americans. A number of his popular works, Life Amongst the Modocs, An Elk Hunt, and The Battle of Castle Crags, draw on these experiences. He was wounded in the cheek and neck with an arrow during this latter battle, recuperating at the Gold Rush-era mining town of Portuguese Flat.