Buena Regional Middle School

Set in BUENA, New Jersey, Buena Regional Middle School is a small junior high, one of the schools within Buena Regional School District. It works with 345 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 40% leaner than the state mean of about 578.

Buena Regional School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,569 students; Buena Regional Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Buena Regional Middle School logs that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 31% Hispanic, 12% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Atlantic County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Buena Regional Middle School records 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Buena Regional Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Buena Regional Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.6%, the actual is 26.1%, a residual of -8.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Atlantic County shows median household income runs about $78,050, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Atlantic County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), of which Buena Regional Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Buena Regional High School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Buena Regional Middle School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.3%.

Buena Regional Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 18%: 421 students in 2018 compared to 345 in 2025.

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