Community Middle School

Community Middle School is a sprawling intermediate school in PLAINSBORO, New Jersey, part of West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District. The school educates 1,029 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Community Middle School sits 78% bigger than that benchmark.

West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 8,831 students. Community Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Community Middle School records that 77% of the student body identifies as Asian. The remainder is composed of 12% White, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Community Middle School logs 102 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Community Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Community Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.4%; this one delivers 70.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Middlesex County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), of which Community Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Community Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 71.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Community Middle School has ticked down 12%, going from 1,172 students in 2018 to 1,029 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 18% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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