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What's the biggest difference between Benjamin Franklin Middle School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
627
Middle
DISTRICT 636 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RIDGEWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341383000766
Benjamin Franklin Middle School
335 NORTH VAN DIEN AVE, RIDGEWOOD, NJ 07451 · (201) 670-2780 · Bergen County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL627 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of New Jersey public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
3%
16 students
DISTRICT 3% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 209 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 204 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 214 | 34% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Benjamin Franklin Middle School→Ridgewood High School
Based on grade levels within Ridgewood Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
87.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +6.8pp since 2023
Math
73.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +17.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 17 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.0% | 73.4% |
| 2023-24 | 80.2% | 56.4% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Benjamin Franklin Middle School
Benjamin Franklin Middle School's state test result (66.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Franklin Middle School this school | 627 | 2.6% | 66.1% |
| River Dell Middle School River Edge | 573 | 0.7% | 69.2% |
| Glen Rock Middle School GLEN ROCK | 642 | 1.1% | 66.6% |
| Warren Middle School Warren | 547 | 7.7% | 63.7% |
| Robert R Lazar Middle School MONTVILLE | 798 | 4.1% | 70.1% |
| Columbia Middle School BERKELEY HTS | 523 | 2.7% | 66.7% |
Matched among New Jersey middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Benjamin Franklin Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.1% | #47 of 433 | #13 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #37 of 437 ▲ 76 | #10 of 53 ▲ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #19 of 437 ▲ 21 | #5 of 53 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 627 | #168 of 445 | #17 of 53 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #224 of 417 | #30 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.5% | #146 of 419 | #20 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 2.6% | #410 of 436 | #40 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.9% | #130 of 282 | #13 of 35 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
627
-71 (-10%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 550
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 12.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 627 | 57 | 11.0:1 | 3% (16) |
| 2023-24 | 635 | 56.5 | 11.2:1 | 2% (13) |
| 2022-23 | 684 | 57.7 | 11.8:1 | 2% (14) |
| 2020-21 | 698 | 57 | 12.3:1 | 1% (7) |
| 2017-18 | 712 | 54.2 | 13.1:1 | 1% (10) |
| 2015-16 | 746 | 49 | 15.2:1 | 2% (16) |
| 2010-11 | 689 | 42 | 16.4:1 | 1% (6) |
| 2000-01 | 623 | 45 | 13.8:1 | 1% (8) |
| 1990-91 | 550 | 43 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Benjamin Franklin Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (712 to 627); teachers up 5% (54.2 to 57).
About Benjamin Franklin Middle School
Benjamin Franklin Middle School is a public middle-grades school run by Ridgewood Public School District in RIDGEWOOD, New Jersey. Enrollment is 627 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 6 through 8.
The 10 schools in Ridgewood Public School District enroll 5,419 students altogether, Benjamin Franklin Middle School among them.
A majority of students at Benjamin Franklin Middle School, 55%, are White. Next come 26% Asian, 9% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. County-wide, about 55% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at Benjamin Franklin Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 62%.
Benjamin Franklin Middle School's 57 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 11.0:1. Middle schools in New Jersey have a similar average ratio of 10.9:1. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 3%. Compared with the 28% average for public schools in Bergen County, the school's rate is lower.
Benjamin Franklin Middle School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 82% of New Jersey public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Benjamin Franklin Middle School falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 66.1% actual against 64.8% predicted.
According to the American Community Survey, in Bergen County, median household income is about $124,884, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. A total of 291 public schools operate in Bergen County, serving about 133,883 students.
Travell Elementary School is the public school closest to Benjamin Franklin Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Benjamin Franklin Middle School is 6th of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES assigns Benjamin Franklin Middle School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 698 in 2020-21 and 627 in 2024-25, a 10% decrease. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 12.3:1 to 11.0:1.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Benjamin Franklin Middle School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ridgewood Public School District
- Ridgewood High SchoolHigh · 1,740 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 644 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Willard Elementary SchoolElementary · 440 students
- Somerville Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Hawes Elementary SchoolElementary · 357 students
Other schools in RIDGEWOOD
- Ridgewood High SchoolHigh · 1,740 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 644 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Willard Elementary SchoolElementary · 440 students
- Somerville Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Hawes Elementary SchoolElementary · 357 students
Other Benjamin Franklin Middle schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named Benjamin Franklin Middle. Benjamin Franklin Middle School is the 5th largest of the 7.
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolTEANECK, NJ · 463 students
- Benjamin Franklin MiddleRocky Mount, VA · 1,382 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolValparaiso, IN · 823 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolLevittown, PA · 754 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolSpringfield, IL · 709 students
Nearby schools
- Travell Elementary School0.2 mi · 295
- Ridgewood High School0.7 mi · 1,740
- Glen School0.8 mi · 126
- Somerville Elementary School0.9 mi · 394
- Ho-Ho-Kus Public School0.9 mi · 573
- Stony Lane Elementary School1.2 mi · 223
Frequently asked questions
About Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Benjamin Franklin Middle School?
Benjamin Franklin Middle School enrolls approximately 627 students in grades 06-08.
Is Benjamin Franklin Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Benjamin Franklin Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Benjamin Franklin Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Benjamin Franklin Middle School is approximately 11.0:1 (57 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Benjamin Franklin Middle School?
Benjamin Franklin Middle School reports a student body of 55% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 26% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Benjamin Franklin Middle School?
Benjamin Franklin Middle School is overseen by Ridgewood Public School District in Bergen County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.