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Enrollment
592
Middle
DISTRICT 690 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340549005212
Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus
415 Francis Street, Somerset, NJ 08873 · (732) 249-6410 · Somerset County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL592 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% 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.
- C-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
8.5:1
69 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.3:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
341 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 | 201 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 197 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 194 | 33% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus→Franklin High School
Based on grade levels within Franklin Township Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
38.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.2pp since 2023
Math
18.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 18.4% |
| 2023-24 | 34.8% | 18.7% |
% 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
24.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus
Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus's state test result (24.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus this school | 592 | 57.6% | 24.9% |
| Rahway 7th & 8th Grade Academy RAHWAY | 701 | 62.3% | 24.9% |
| Benjamin Franklin Middle School TEANECK | 463 | 52.3% | 40.0% |
| Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus Somerset | 787 | 55.8% | 30.8% |
| Thomas Jefferson Middle School TEANECK | 510 | 48.0% | 41.1% |
| Myles J. McManus MIddle School Linden | 711 | 67.5% | 23.7% |
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 Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Somerset County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.9% | #368 of 433 | #17 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.4% | #374 of 437 ▼ 12 | #19 of 21 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #354 of 437 ▲ 5 | #16 of 21 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 592 | #190 of 445 | #9 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.5:1 | #32 of 417 | #3 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.1% | #117 of 419 | #10 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.6% | #108 of 436 | #6 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.5% | #4 of 282 | #1 of 17 |
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
592
-70 (-11%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 692
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
was 7.6:1
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 | 592 | 69.5 | 8.5:1 | 58% (341) |
| 2023-24 | 667 | 80.6 | 8.3:1 | 54% (359) |
| 2022-23 | 730 | 81.5 | 9.0:1 | 53% (389) |
| 2020-21 | 662 | 87 | 7.6:1 | 54% (358) |
| 2017-18 | 979 | 112.4 | 8.7:1 | 47% (463) |
| 2015-16 | 1,056 | 115 | 9.2:1 | 49% (518) |
| 2010-11 | 1,032 | 101 | 10.2:1 | 40% (413) |
| 2000-01 | 874 | 74 | 11.8:1 | 31% (270) |
| 1990-91 | 692 | 53 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus.
Since 2017-18: students down 40% (979 to 592); teachers down 38% (112.4 to 69.5).
About Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus
At 415 Francis Street in Somerset, New Jersey, Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus operates as a mid-sized middle school. In all, 592 students attend the school in grades 6 through 8.
Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus is one school in Franklin Township Public School District, a system of 10 schools with 6,950 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus is Hispanic, with 48% of students. Other groups make up 34% Black, 7% White, 6% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Somerset County as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus scores 64%.
Classroom staffing at Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus totals 69.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 8.5:1. Compared with the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey, this school's ratio is lower. Federal data show 58% of students (341) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 28% average for public schools in Somerset County, the school's rate is higher.
Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 9% of New Jersey public middle schools.
In New Jersey, Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 24.9% actual against a predicted 34.6%.
American Community Survey estimates for Somerset County show that the median household earns about $140,374 a year, about 58% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Somerset County has 84 public schools with about 51,276 students, including Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus.
Hillcrest School, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 30.1%; Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus's is 24.9%, ranking 5th of 8.
Under the NCES locale system, Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus is Suburb: Large.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 662 (2020-21) to 592 (2024-25).
On allk12, people connected to Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Somerset County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
349,846
Census ACS
Median income
$140,374
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
84
51,276 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Franklin Township Public School District
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 2,134 students
- Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith CampusMiddle · 787 students
- Claremont Elementary SchoolElementary · 685 students
- Franklin Park SchoolElementary · 671 students
- Elizabeth Avenue SchoolElementary · 541 students
- Hillcrest SchoolElementary · 439 students
Other schools in Somerset
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 2,134 students
- Central Jersey College Prep Charter SchoolCombined · 1,396 students
- Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith CampusMiddle · 787 students
- Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter SchoolCombined · 613 students
- Elizabeth Avenue SchoolElementary · 541 students
- Hillcrest SchoolElementary · 439 students
Nearby schools
- Hillcrest School0.3 mi · 439
- New Brunswick High School0.7 mi · 2,443
- MacAfee Road School0.7 mi · 405
- Pine Grove Manor School1.0 mi · 346
- Mckinley Community School1.0 mi · 524
- Conerly Road School1.1 mi · 350
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street CampusHow many students attend Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus?
Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus enrolls approximately 592 students in grades 06-08.
Is Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus an elementary, middle, or high school?
Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus have?
Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus employs 69 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus?
Student demographics at Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus are roughly 7% White, 48% Hispanic, 34% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus?
Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus is overseen by Franklin Township Public School District in Somerset County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.