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Enrollment
925
Middle
DISTRICT 840 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PARSIPPANY-TROY HILLS TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341248004434
Brooklawn Middle School
250 Beachwood Road, Parsippany, NJ 07054 · (973) 428-7551 · Morris County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL925 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of New Jersey public middle schools
- A-Test 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
84 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
122 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 317 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 308 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 300 | 32% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
67.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.2pp since 2023
Math
62.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.9% | 62.4% |
| 2023-24 | 66.7% | 61.7% |
% 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
61.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Brooklawn Middle School
Brooklawn Middle School's state test result (61.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklawn Middle School this school | 925 | 13.2% | 61.6% |
| Pond Road Middle School ROBBINSVILLE | 1,022 | 10.1% | 64.2% |
| Auten Road Intermediate School Hillsborough | 1,112 | 14.9% | 62.4% |
| Heritage Middle School LIVINGSTON | 994 | 2.3% | 71.8% |
| Tenafly Middle School TENAFLY | 916 | 4.8% | 73.9% |
| Hillsborough Township Middle School Hillsborough | 1,246 | 16.5% | 60.7% |
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 Brooklawn Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Morris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.6% | #88 of 433 | #12 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.4% | #94 of 437 ▼ 14 | #13 of 32 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.9% | #162 of 437 ▼ 22 | #22 of 32 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 925 | #58 of 445 | #4 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #229 of 417 | #28 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #97 of 419 | #2 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.2% | #334 of 436 | #17 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.8% | #112 of 122 | #8 of 9 |
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
925
+63 (+7%) vs 2020
+32% since 1990-91, when it was 699
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 925 | 84 | 11.0:1 | 13% (122) |
| 2023-24 | 942 | 83.2 | 11.3:1 | 12% (110) |
| 2022-23 | 904 | 84.2 | 10.7:1 | 9% (83) |
| 2020-21 | 862 | 81 | 10.6:1 | 12% (100) |
| 2017-18 | 918 | 86.2 | 10.7:1 | 11% (101) |
| 2015-16 | 879 | 89 | 9.9:1 | 11% (95) |
| 2010-11 | 863 | 68 | 12.7:1 | 9% (80) |
| 2000-01 | 857 | 62 | 13.8:1 | 8% (68) |
| 1990-91 | 699 | 64 | 10.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brooklawn Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (918 to 925); teachers down 2% (86.2 to 84).
About Brooklawn Middle School
Brooklawn Middle School is a large middle school in Parsippany, New Jersey, administered by Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District. It enrolls 925 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 60% above the 578-student average for middle schools in New Jersey.
Brooklawn Middle School falls under Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District, which has 14 schools enrolling 7,027 students.
Of every 100 students at Brooklawn Middle School, about 45 are Asian, the largest group. It is also 35% White, 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Morris County is roughly 11% Asian. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 66%.
The school had 84 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 11.0:1. The average ratio among middle schools in New Jersey is similar, at 10.9:1. The school reported 13% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
Brooklawn Middle School holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 78% of New Jersey public middle schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Brooklawn Middle School falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 61.6% actual against 58.9% predicted.
In Morris County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $137,326 a year, roughly 58% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Brooklawn Middle School, Morris County has 156 public schools.
Parsippany Hills High School is the nearest public school to Brooklawn Middle School, about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Brooklawn Middle School ranks 8th on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Brooklawn Middle School as Suburb: Large.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 7% rise, from 862 to 925.
Brooklawn Middle School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Morris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
514,528
Census ACS
Median income
$137,326
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
156
72,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District
- Parsippany Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,035 students
- Parsippany High SchoolHigh · 900 students
- Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 755 students
- Lake Hiawatha Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
- Knollwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Littleton Elementary SchoolElementary · 392 students
Other schools in Parsippany
- Parsippany High SchoolHigh · 900 students
- Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 755 students
- Eastlake Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
- Northvail Elementary SchoolElementary · 359 students
- Troy Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 290 students
- Lake Parsippany Elementary SchoolElementary · 284 students
Nearby schools
- Parsippany Hills High School0.4 mi · 1,035
- Littleton Elementary School0.5 mi · 392
- Lake Parsippany Elementary School0.6 mi · 284
- Eastlake Elementary School1.2 mi · 364
- Mount Tabor Elementary School1.4 mi · 340
- Mountview Road School2.0 mi · 276
Frequently asked questions
About Brooklawn Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Brooklawn Middle School?
Brooklawn Middle School enrolls approximately 925 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Brooklawn Middle School serve?
Brooklawn Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Brooklawn Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Brooklawn Middle School is approximately 11.0:1 (84 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Brooklawn Middle School?
At Brooklawn Middle School, the student body is approximately 35% White, 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, 45% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Brooklawn Middle School public or private?
Brooklawn Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.