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The public middle schools with the most Black students in Essex County, New Jersey

29 public middle schools in Essex County, New Jersey appear in this ranking of the public middle schools with the most Black students, ranked by the total number of Black or African American students enrolled. Union Avenue Middle School leads the list at 495, against a median of 106 across the ranked schools.

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Schools ranked
29
Essex County, New Jersey
Top Black students
495
Median Black students
106
MOST BLACK (COUNT) · ESSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
#SchoolCityDistrictStudents% BlackBlack students
1Union Avenue Middle SchoolIRVINGTON, NJIrvington Public School District73567.3%495
2University Middle SchoolIRVINGTON, NJIrvington Public School District71961.6%443
3Pride Academy Charter SchoolEAST ORANGE, NJPride Academy Charter School District30093.7%281
4John L. Costley Middle SchoolEAST ORANGE, NJEast Orange School District33470.4%235
5Patrick F. Healy Middle SchoolEAST ORANGE, NJEast Orange School District32271.7%231
6Liberty Middle SchoolWEST ORANGE, NJWest Orange Public Schools55939.9%223
7Bloomfield Middle SchoolBloomfield, NJBloomfield Township School District94423.1%218
8Sojourner Truth Middle SchoolEAST ORANGE, NJEast Orange School District26473.5%194
9Orange Preparatory Academy School of Inquiry and InnovationORANGE, NJORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District39747.1%187
10Rosa Parks Community SchoolORANGE, NJORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District59330.0%178
11Maplewood Middle SchoolMAPLEWOOD, NJSouth Orange-Maplewood School District76222.8%174
12Roosevelt Middle SchoolW ORANGE, NJWest Orange Public Schools45735.0%160
13South Orange Middle SchoolS ORANGE, NJSouth Orange-Maplewood School District75220.2%152
14Edison Middle SchoolW ORANGE, NJWest Orange Public Schools47728.7%137
15Glenfield Middle SchoolMONTCLAIR, NJMontclair Public School District51220.7%106
16Buzz Aldrin Middle SchoolUPPER MONTCLAIR, NJMontclair Public School District61814.6%90
17Discovery Charter SchoolNEWARK, NJDiscovery Charter School9981.8%81
18Belleville Middle SchoolBELLEVILLE, NJBelleville Public School District6857.7%53
19Heritage Middle SchoolLIVINGSTON, NJLivingston Board of Education School District9944.8%48
20Renaissance Middle School at the Rand BuildingMONTCLAIR, NJMontclair Public School District20317.7%36
21Mount Pleasant Middle SchoolLIVINGSTON, NJLivingston Board of Education School District5306.0%32
22Millburn Middle SchoolMILLBURN, NJMillburn Township School District1,1062.8%31
23John H. Walker Middle SchoolNUTLEY, NJNutley Public School District6373.1%20
24West Essex Middle SchoolNORTH CALDWELL, NJWest Essex Regional School District5582.9%16
25Grover Cleveland Middle SchoolCALDWELL, NJCaldwell-West School District6102.3%14
26Henry B. Whitehorne Middle SchoolVERONA, NJVerona Public School District7021.9%13
27Memorial Middle SchoolCedar Grove, NJCedar Grove Township School District4682.6%12
28Washington SchoolMillburn, NJMillburn Township School District3631.9%7
29Gould/Mountain Elementary SchoolN CALDWELL, NJNorth Caldwell School District2791.8%5
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