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Crossroads North 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 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Crossroads North Middle School
As a sprawling 6-8 campus in MONMOUTH JUNCTION, New Jersey, Crossroads North Middle School hosts 935 students from grades 6 through 8, part of South Brunswick School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Crossroads North Middle School sits 62% bigger than that benchmark.
Crossroads North Middle School is one of 12 schools operated by South Brunswick School District, a district that works with 7,589 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Crossroads North Middle School logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Asian. Other groups include 15% White, 11% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 19% of students at Crossroads North Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Middlesex County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crossroads North Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.8%, the actual is 61.6%, a residual of +5.8 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Middlesex County put 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), Crossroads North Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Crossroads South Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Crossroads North Middle School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.1%.
Crossroads North Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crossroads North Middle School has declined 11%, going from 1,046 students in 2018 to 935 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 11% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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