Central Middle School

Central Middle School is a middle-grades school of average-sized scale in Parsippany, New Jersey, one of the schools within Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District, educateing 755 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 31% above the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 7,027 students. Central Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Central Middle School lists that the most-represented group is Asian (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% White, 18% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 11% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Central Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.4%; this one delivers 57.6%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Morris County shows median household income runs about $137,326, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Morris County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), of which Central Middle School is one.

Northvail Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Central Middle School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 64.5%.

Central Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 793 students in 2018 compared to 755 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 38% to 26%.

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