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Enrollment
787
Middle
DISTRICT 690 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340549000563
Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus
1649 Amwell Road, Somerset, NJ 08873 · (732) 873-2800 · Somerset County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL787 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% 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.
- CBeats 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
10.0:1
79 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.3:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
439 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 | 272 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 244 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 271 | 34% |
Student demographics
70%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 Sampson G. Smith 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
50.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.8pp since 2023
Math
23.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.2% | 23.6% |
| 2023-24 | 44.4% | 23.7% |
% 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
30.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Sampson G. Smith Campus
Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus's state test result (30.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus this school | 787 | 55.8% | 30.8% |
| Linwood School NORTH BRUNSWICK | 761 | 62.7% | 27.9% |
| North Brunswick Twp. Middle School North Brunswick | 754 | 59.9% | 33.2% |
| Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus Somerset | 592 | 57.6% | 24.9% |
| Avenel Middle School AVENEL | 629 | 59.5% | 23.7% |
| Bloomfield Middle School Bloomfield | 944 | 50.1% | 39.7% |
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 Sampson G. Smith Campus ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Somerset County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #330 of 433 | #15 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #348 of 437 ▼ 12 | #16 of 21 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.2% | #290 of 437 ▲ 7 | #15 of 21 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 787 | #98 of 445 | #5 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #124 of 417 | #14 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.3% | #38 of 419 | #2 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.8% | #117 of 436 | #7 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.0% | #34 of 282 | #3 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
787
+17 (+2%) vs 2020
-34% since 2010-11, when it was 1,186
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 8.6:1
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 | 787 | 78.7 | 10.0:1 | 56% (439) |
| 2023-24 | 714 | 73.2 | 9.8:1 | 47% (339) |
| 2022-23 | 706 | 71.8 | 9.8:1 | 47% (332) |
| 2020-21 | 770 | 90 | 8.6:1 | 46% (351) |
| 2017-18 | 1,035 | 111.9 | 9.3:1 | 51% (531) |
| 2015-16 | 1,038 | 109 | 9.5:1 | 47% (486) |
| 2010-11 | 1,186 | 75 | 15.8:1 | 39% (461) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (1,035 to 787); teachers down 30% (111.9 to 78.7).
About Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus
Among the schools in Somerset, New Jersey, is Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus, a mid-sized middle-grades school. The school has 787 students in 2024-25 across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, middle schools in New Jersey enroll about 578 students on average.
Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus falls under Franklin Township Public School District, which has 10 schools enrolling 6,950 students.
The biggest share of students at Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus, 42%, is Hispanic. The remaining shares are 30% Black, 15% Asian, 10% White, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Somerset County's population at about 18%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus scores 70%.
Classroom staffing at Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus totals 78.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.0:1. Compared with the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey, this school's ratio is lower. Federal data show 56% of students (439) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Somerset County, the average is 28%.
On the allk12 Grade, Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus lands at C-, ahead of 23% of New Jersey public middle schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus would be expected to post about 35.6%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 30.8%.
American Community Survey estimates for Somerset County show that median household income comes to about $140,374, roughly 58% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus shares Somerset County with 83 other public schools.
Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus is about 1.1 miles from MacAfee Road School, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus's average proficiency of 30.8% compares with 37.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 770 to 787. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 8.6:1 to 10.0:1.
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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
- Claremont Elementary SchoolElementary · 685 students
- Franklin Park SchoolElementary · 671 students
- Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street CampusMiddle · 592 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
- Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter SchoolCombined · 613 students
- Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street CampusMiddle · 592 students
- Elizabeth Avenue SchoolElementary · 541 students
- Hillcrest SchoolElementary · 439 students
Nearby schools
- MacAfee Road School1.1 mi · 405
- Conerly Road School1.4 mi · 350
- Franklin Middle School at Hamilton Street Campus1.8 mi · 592
- Hillcrest School1.9 mi · 439
- Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School2.2 mi · 613
- New Brunswick High School2.2 mi · 2,443
Frequently asked questions
About Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith CampusHow large is Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus?
Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus enrolls approximately 787 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus serve?
Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus?
Approximately 10.0:1 students per teacher at Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus?
At Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus, the student body is approximately 10% White, 42% Hispanic, 30% Black, 15% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus in?
Franklin Middle School at Sampson G. Smith Campus is part of Franklin Township Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.