Dual Language School

Located at 630 Amboy Avenue, in Fords, New Jersey, Dual Language School is a modestly sized 6-8 campus that enrolls 384 students (grades 4 through 8), part of Perth Amboy Public School District. Compared to the state average of about 578 students per school, that is 34% below typical.

Dual Language School is one of 12 schools operated by Perth Amboy Public School District, a district that works with 9,845 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Dual Language School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Dual Language School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 76% of students at Dual Language School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Middlesex County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Dual Language School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.4%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of +8.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household earnings sit near $111,549, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), Dual Language School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Fords Middle School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dual Language School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dual Language School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 33.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Dual Language School's enrollment has climbed 30% since 2018, when it stood at 295 (now 384). Class-load math has grew: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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