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What's the most underrated thing about Central Middle School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
755
Middle
DISTRICT 840 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PARSIPPANY-TROY HILLS TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341248004436
Central Middle School
1620 Route 46, Parsippany, NJ 07054 · (973) 263-7125 · Morris County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL755 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of New Jersey public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
9.6:1
79 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
190 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 | 269 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 253 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 233 | 31% |
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
66.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.8pp since 2023
Math
60.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . +3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.6% | 60.7% |
| 2023-24 | 62.8% | 57.2% |
% 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
57.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Central Middle School
Central Middle School's state test result (57.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Middle School this school | 755 | 25.2% | 57.6% |
| Leonia Middle School Leonia | 661 | 21.2% | 62.7% |
| Lewis F. Cole Middle School FORT LEE | 1,227 | 25.1% | 63.6% |
| Brooklawn Middle School Parsippany | 925 | 13.2% | 61.6% |
| Iselin Middle School ISELIN | 794 | 36.1% | 52.3% |
| Crossroads North Middle School MONMOUTH JUNCTION | 935 | 18.9% | 61.6% |
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 Central Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Morris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #118 of 433 | #19 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.7% | #102 of 437 ▲ 6 | #15 of 32 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.6% | #175 of 437 ▲ 1 | #23 of 32 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 755 | #109 of 445 | #8 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.6:1 | #91 of 417 | #12 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #96 of 419 | #1 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.2% | #254 of 436 | #9 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.8% | #213 of 282 | #16 of 21 |
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
755
-78 (-9%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 602
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 755 | 79 | 9.6:1 | 25% (190) |
| 2023-24 | 731 | 78.7 | 9.3:1 | 20% (147) |
| 2022-23 | 781 | 80.1 | 9.8:1 | 18% (142) |
| 2020-21 | 833 | 78 | 10.7:1 | 17% (138) |
| 2017-18 | 793 | 80 | 9.9:1 | 20% (155) |
| 2015-16 | 790 | 78 | 10.1:1 | 17% (138) |
| 2010-11 | 793 | 68 | 11.7:1 | 13% (100) |
| 2000-01 | 670 | 58 | 11.6:1 | 9% (62) |
| 1990-91 | 602 | 56 | 10.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Central Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (793 to 755); teachers down 1% (80 to 79).
About Central Middle School
Central Middle School is a medium-sized middle school in Parsippany, New Jersey, one of the schools in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District. A federal count lists 755 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. Average enrollment for middle schools in New Jersey is about 578, so this school runs 31% bigger than that.
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District has 7,027 students in 14 schools, and Central Middle School is one of those schools.
The most common group at Central Middle School is Asian students, at 49%. The school is also 26% White, 18% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 2% multiracial. The Asian share of the county population is lower, at 11%. Central Middle School's diversity index is 66%, against a US figure of 70%.
Central Middle School's 79 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 9.6:1. On average, middle schools in New Jersey have 10.9:1, compared with 9.6:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 25%.
The allk12 Grade for Central Middle School is A-. Compared with New Jersey public middle schools, the school scored higher than 78% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Compared with New Jersey schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Central Middle School's results are 5.2 points above predicted: 57.6% against 52.4%.
Census estimates describe Morris County this way: the median household income is $137,326, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 58%, and about 3% of people live in poverty. Besides Central Middle School, Morris County has 155 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Northvail Elementary School, is about 0.4 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Central Middle School is 8th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES assigns Central Middle School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, Central Middle School's enrollment declined 9%, to 755. The school's ratio fell from 10.7:1 to 9.6:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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
- Brooklawn Middle SchoolMiddle · 925 students
- Parsippany High SchoolHigh · 900 students
- Lake Hiawatha Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
- Knollwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Littleton Elementary SchoolElementary · 392 students
Other schools in Parsippany
- Brooklawn Middle SchoolMiddle · 925 students
- Parsippany High SchoolHigh · 900 students
- Eastlake Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
- Northvail Elementary SchoolElementary · 359 students
- Troy Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 290 students
- Lake Parsippany Elementary SchoolElementary · 284 students
Other Central Middle schools
49 other US public schools in 25 states are named Central Middle. Central Middle School is the 14th largest of the 50.
- Central Middle SchoolStirling, NJ · 284 students
- CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOLEDEN PRAIRIE, MN · 1,860 students
- Central Middle SchoolReading, PA · 1,785 students
- Central MiddleEdgewater, MD · 1,204 students
- Central Middle SchoolWESLACO, TX · 1,060 students
Nearby schools
- Northvail Elementary School0.4 mi · 359
- Parsippany High School0.6 mi · 900
- Lake Hiawatha Elementary School1.1 mi · 445
- Knollwood Elementary School1.2 mi · 394
- Troy Hills Elementary School1.3 mi · 290
- Eastlake Elementary School1.4 mi · 364
Frequently asked questions
About Central Middle SchoolHow large is Central Middle School?
Central Middle School enrolls approximately 755 students in grades 06-08.
Is Central Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Central Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Central Middle School have?
Central Middle School employs 79 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Central Middle School?
Student demographics at Central Middle School are roughly 26% White, 18% Hispanic, 4% Black, 49% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Central Middle School in?
Central Middle School is part of Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District.
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