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Conackamack Middle School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Conackamack Middle School
Conackamack Middle School, a modestly sized intermediate school in PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, operated by Piscataway Township School District, serves 466 students, covering grades 6 through 8.
Piscataway Township School District runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 7,289 students. Conackamack Middle School is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Conackamack Middle School records that the most-represented group is Asian (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 23% Black, 20% Hispanic, 14% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Middlesex County's rate of about 42%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Conackamack Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.6%; this one delivers 50.5%.
Around the school, census data for Middlesex County shows the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), Conackamack Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Martin Luther King Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Conackamack Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Conackamack Middle School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 51.9%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Over the past 7-year window. Conackamack Middle School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 472 (now 466). White enrollment moved from 23% to 14% across the same window.
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