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How has Crossroads South Middle School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
812
Middle
DISTRICT 874 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH BRUNSWICK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341521003618
Crossroads South Middle School
195 Major Road, MONMOUTH JUNCTION, NJ 08852 · (732) 329-4633 · Middlesex County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL812 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of New Jersey public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
10.4:1
78 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
138 students
DISTRICT 21% · 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 | 247 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 277 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 288 | 35% |
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Crossroads South Middle School→South Brunswick High School
Based on grade levels within South Brunswick School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
84.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
68.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +7.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.6% | 68.1% |
| 2023-24 | 80.2% | 60.9% |
% 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
65.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Crossroads South Middle School
Crossroads South Middle School's state test result (65.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads South Middle School this school | 812 | 17.0% | 65.2% |
| Crossroads North Middle School MONMOUTH JUNCTION | 935 | 18.9% | 61.6% |
| Montgomery Upper Middle School Skillman | 760 | 5.8% | 75.5% |
| Montgomery Lower Middle School Skillman | 680 | 7.2% | 75.5% |
| Thomas R Grover Middle School West Windsor | 1,183 | 8.6% | 66.0% |
| Community Middle School PLAINSBORO | 1,029 | 8.7% | 70.2% |
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 Crossroads South Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.2% | #58 of 433 | #5 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.1% | #61 of 437 ▲ 27 | #6 of 39 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.6% | #32 of 437 ▲ 9 | #3 of 39 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 812 | #86 of 445 | #16 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #158 of 417 | #13 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.9% | #228 of 419 | #30 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.0% | #300 of 436 | #35 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.1% | #22 of 282 | #7 of 23 |
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
812
-259 (-24%) vs 2020
+65% since 1990-91, when it was 491
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 812 | 77.8 | 10.4:1 | 17% (138) |
| 2023-24 | 923 | 88.8 | 10.4:1 | 13% (118) |
| 2022-23 | 987 | 86.4 | 11.4:1 | 11% (112) |
| 2020-21 | 1,071 | 77 | 13.9:1 | 16% (172) |
| 2017-18 | 1,145 | 82.5 | 13.9:1 | 15% (176) |
| 2015-16 | 1,143 | 85 | 13.4:1 | 15% (167) |
| 2010-11 | 1,125 | 79 | 14.2:1 | 10% (117) |
| 2000-01 | 1,089 | 84 | 13.0:1 | 7% (79) |
| 1990-91 | 491 | 46 | 10.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Crossroads South Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (1,145 to 812); teachers down 6% (82.5 to 77.8).
About Crossroads South Middle School
Crossroads South Middle School is a medium-sized middle school based in MONMOUTH JUNCTION, New Jersey. The school serves 812 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. For comparison, middle schools in New Jersey average about 578 students.
The district, South Brunswick School District, operates 12 schools serving 7,589 students.
Roughly 65% of students at Crossroads South Middle School are Asian. Other reported shares: 15% White, 11% Hispanic, and 7% Black. Middlesex County's residents are about 26% Asian, 39 points below the school's share. The school's diversity index is 54%, meaning two students picked at random have a 54% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Crossroads South Middle School operates with 77.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 10.4:1. That is close to the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey. About 17% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. The gap from the 42% average for public schools in Middlesex County is 25 points.
Crossroads South Middle School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 90% of New Jersey public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 56.9% for Crossroads South Middle School. The school posts 65.2%, 8.3 points above the prediction.
Crossroads South Middle School is located in Middlesex County, where the median household income is $111,549, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Besides Crossroads South Middle School, Middlesex County has 213 other public schools.
The closest public school to Crossroads South Middle School is Crossroads North Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. Crossroads South Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 65.2% average proficiency ranks 4th among 7 nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 812, a 24% decrease from 1,071 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher fell from 13.9 to 10.4 over 4 years.
Discussions about Crossroads South Middle School may include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South Brunswick School District
- South Brunswick High SchoolHigh · 2,666 students
- Crossroads North Middle SchoolMiddle · 935 students
- Brooks Crossing Elementary SchoolElementary · 498 students
- Constable Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
- Indian Fields Elementary SchoolElementary · 460 students
- Brunswick Acres Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
Other schools in MONMOUTH JUNCTION
- South Brunswick High SchoolHigh · 2,666 students
- Crossroads North Middle SchoolMiddle · 935 students
- Brooks Crossing Elementary SchoolElementary · 498 students
- Monmouth Junction Elementary SchoolElementary · 301 students
- Deans Elementary SchoolElementary · 75 students
Nearby schools
- Crossroads North Middle School0.3 mi · 935
- Deans Elementary School1.3 mi · 75
- Monmouth Junction Elementary School1.3 mi · 301
- Brooks Crossing Elementary School1.3 mi · 498
- Dayton Elementary School1.4 mi · 110
- Indian Fields Elementary School1.5 mi · 460
Frequently asked questions
About Crossroads South Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Crossroads South Middle School?
Crossroads South Middle School enrolls approximately 812 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Crossroads South Middle School serve?
Crossroads South Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Crossroads South Middle School have?
Crossroads South Middle School employs 78 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Crossroads South Middle School?
At Crossroads South Middle School, the student body is approximately 15% White, 11% Hispanic, 7% Black, 65% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Crossroads South Middle School?
Crossroads South Middle School is overseen by South Brunswick School District in Middlesex County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.