Copeland Middle School

Set in ROCKAWAY, New Jersey, Copeland Middle School is a medium-sized 6-8 campus, run under Rockaway Township School District. It serves 799 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 38% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Copeland Middle School is one of 6 schools operated by Rockaway Township School District, a district that hosts 2,425 students overall.

Demographically, Copeland Middle School shows that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 29% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Morris County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Copeland Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.0%, the actual is 48.6%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Morris County shows the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, 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 Copeland Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Stony Brook Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Copeland Middle School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

Copeland Middle School operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 789 students in 2018 compared to 799 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 54% across the same window.

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