Edgar Middle School

Edgar Middle School is one of the reasonably sized junior highs in METUCHEN, New Jersey, one of the schools within Metuchen Public School District, with 761 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. That puts it 32% larger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Metuchen Public School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,329 students; Edgar Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Edgar Middle School lists that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 31% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Edgar Middle School has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Edgar Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 10% of students at Edgar Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Edgar Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.7%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of +8.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household earnings sit near $111,549, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Edgar Middle School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mildred B. Moss Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Edgar Middle School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Edgar Middle School has grew 5%, going from 724 students in 2018 to 761 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 59% to 45%.

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