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Enrollment
999
Middle
DISTRICT 932 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UNION CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341638000546
Emerson Middle School
318 - 18th Street, UNION CITY, NJ 07087 · (201) 348-5900 · Hudson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL999 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of New Jersey public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
14.9:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
866 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 235 | 24% |
| Grade 7 | 377 | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 387 | 39% |
Student demographics
5%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 10% · 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
Based on grade levels within Union City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
64.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +6.5pp since 2023
Math
30.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.2% | 30.8% |
| 2023-24 | 57.7% | 33.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
38.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 19% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Emerson Middle School
Emerson Middle School's state test result (38.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerson Middle School this school | 999 | 86.7% | 38.7% |
| Union Hill Middle School UNION CITY | 865 | 83.5% | 42.0% |
| West New York Middle School WEST NEW YORK | 1,087 | 91.4% | 32.7% |
| William C. McGinnis Middle School PERTH AMBOY | 984 | 78.8% | 20.5% |
| New Brunswick Middle School NEW BRUNSWICK | 829 | 94.8% | 16.3% |
| Hubbard Middle School PLAINFIELD | 737 | 86.4% | 19.7% |
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 Emerson Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.7% | #269 of 433 | #7 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #309 of 437 ▼ 38 | #7 of 12 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.2% | #191 of 437 ▲ 22 | #5 of 12 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 999 | #31 of 445 | #2 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #403 of 417 | #9 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.3% | #417 of 419 | #10 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.7% | #12 of 436 | #2 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.6% | #279 of 282 | #5 of 6 |
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
999
-47 (-4%) vs 2020
+19% since 2010-11, when it was 843
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 999 | 67 | 14.9:1 | 87% (866) |
| 2023-24 | 1,023 | 70 | 14.6:1 | 84% (864) |
| 2022-23 | 1,001 | 71 | 14.1:1 | 87% (875) |
| 2020-21 | 1,046 | 70 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,005 | 64.2 | 15.7:1 | 92% (929) |
| 2015-16 | 1,003 | 60 | 16.7:1 | 95% (955) |
| 2010-11 | 843 | 49 | 17.2:1 | 94% (793) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Emerson Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (1,005 to 999); teachers up 4% (64.2 to 67).
About Emerson Middle School
Emerson Middle School is a public large middle school in UNION CITY, New Jersey. The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 999 students in 2024-25. The school is 73% above the average for middle schools in New Jersey.
Union City School District has 14 schools; together they serve 11,519 students.
A large majority of enrollment at Emerson Middle School is Hispanic, at 97%. Hudson County's residents are about 41% Hispanic, 57 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 5%.
Emerson Middle School lists 67 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 14.9 students per teacher. Across middle schools in New Jersey, the average ratio is 10.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 87% of the student body. The gap from the 68% average for public schools in Hudson County is 19 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Emerson Middle School lands at B+, ahead of 66% of New Jersey public middle schools.
Emerson Middle School scores 20.0 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 38.7% actual versus 18.7% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Hudson County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $91,795, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county has 130 public schools and about 86,216 students.
Of the public schools around it, Emerson Middle School is closest to Colin Powell Elementary School, about 0.1 miles away. Emerson Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 52.8%, higher than Emerson Middle School's 38.7%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment figures show a drop of 47 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
The discussion board for Emerson Middle School is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Union City School District
- Union City High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Robert Waters Elementary SchoolElementary · 983 students
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 871 students
- Union Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
- Thomas A Edison Elementary SchoolElementary · 767 students
Other schools in UNION CITY
- Union City High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Robert Waters Elementary SchoolElementary · 983 students
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 871 students
- Union Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
- Thomas A Edison Elementary SchoolElementary · 767 students
Other Emerson Middle schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Emerson Middle. Emerson Middle School is the largest of the 6.
- Emerson Middle SchoolNiles, IL · 890 students
- Emerson MiddleBakersfield, CA · 813 students
- Emerson MiddlePomona, CA · 664 students
- Emerson Middle SchoolLIVONIA, MI · 638 students
- Emerson Middle SchoolEnid, OK · 353 students
Nearby schools
- Colin Powell Elementary School0.1 mi · 692
- Hudson Elementary School0.2 mi · 320
- Jose Marti STEM Academy0.3 mi · 625
- Veterans' Memorial Elementary School0.3 mi · 502
- Sara M. Gilmore Academy0.4 mi · 400
- Daniel Webster School0.5 mi · 406
Frequently asked questions
About Emerson Middle SchoolHow many students attend Emerson Middle School?
Emerson Middle School enrolls approximately 999 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Emerson Middle School serve?
Emerson Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Emerson Middle School?
Approximately 14.9:1 students per teacher at Emerson Middle School.
How diverse is Emerson Middle School?
Emerson Middle School reports a student body of 1% White, 97% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian.
What district is Emerson Middle School in?
Emerson Middle School is part of Union City School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.