Bloomfield Middle School

Bloomfield Middle School, a large intermediate school in Bloomfield, New Jersey, one of the schools within Bloomfield Township School District, enrolls 944 students, covering grades 7 through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Bloomfield Middle School sits 63% larger than that benchmark.

Bloomfield Middle School is one of 11 schools operated by Bloomfield Township School District, a district that enrolls 6,400 students overall.

Demographically, Bloomfield Middle School logs that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 23% Black, 21% White, 6% Asian. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Bloomfield Middle School shows 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bloomfield Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Essex County shows median household income runs about $80,789, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Essex County's 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), Bloomfield Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Demarest Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bloomfield Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 59.8%.

Bloomfield Middle School operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Bloomfield Middle School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 940 (now 944). Hispanic enrollment moved from 41% to 47% across the same window.

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