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Bordentown Regional Middle School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Bordentown Regional Middle School
Bordentown Regional Middle School is an intermediate school of moderately sized scale in BORDENTOWN, New Jersey, run under Bordentown Regional School District, educateing 504 students in grades 6 through 8.
Bordentown Regional School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,167 students. Bordentown Regional Middle School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Bordentown Regional Middle School shows that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 12% Black, 8% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Burlington County as a whole.
On the resource side, On paper, Bordentown Regional Middle School has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Bordentown Regional Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 21% of students at Bordentown Regional Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Burlington County's rate of about 32%.
After controlling for student poverty, Bordentown Regional Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.7%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Burlington County put the typical household earns roughly $108,111 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Burlington County's 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), Bordentown Regional Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Clara Barton Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bordentown Regional Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 47.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bordentown Regional Middle School has fell 19%, going from 623 students in 2018 to 504 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 9% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.
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