Frelinghuysen Middle School

Frelinghuysen Middle School is a middle school of substantial scale in MORRISTOWN, New Jersey, overseen by Morris School District, serveing 1,078 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 87% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Within Morris School District, which oversees 10 schools and 5,138 students, Frelinghuysen Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Frelinghuysen Middle School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 41% White, 8% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 103 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Morris County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Frelinghuysen Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 42.1%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Morris County put the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Frelinghuysen Middle School is one of 156 public schools in Morris County (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students).

Nearest neighbor: Central Park School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Frelinghuysen Middle School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Frelinghuysen Middle School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 1,078 (now 1,078). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 35% to 46%.

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