Burlington Township Middle School at Springside

Burlington Township Middle School at Springside is one of the medium-sized junior highs in BURLINGTON, New Jersey, operated by Burlington Township School District, with 822 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 42% above the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Burlington Township School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 3,572 students; Burlington Township Middle School at Springside is among them.

On demographics, Burlington Township Middle School at Springside reports that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% White, 17% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Burlington County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 39% of students at Burlington Township Middle School at Springside qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Burlington Township Middle School at Springside performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.9%, the actual is 37.9%, a residual of -7.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Burlington County shows median household earnings sit near $108,111, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Burlington County's 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), Burlington Township Middle School at Springside is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Burlington Township High School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Burlington Township Middle School at Springside comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.9%.

Burlington Township Middle School at Springside operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Burlington Township Middle School at Springside's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 935 (now 822). The White share of enrollment declined from 44% to 26% over that span.

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