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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Garfield Middle School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
971
Middle
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340576000470
Garfield Middle School
175 LANZA AVE, GARFIELD, NJ 07026 · (973) 272-7020 · Bergen County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL971 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of New Jersey public middle schools
- CTest 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
11.1:1
87 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
647 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 | 324 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 330 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 317 | 33% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
Garfield Middle School→Garfield High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Garfield Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
44.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.5pp since 2023
Math
23.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . -1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 45 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 have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.9% | 23.5% |
| 2023-24 | 44.4% | 24.6% |
% 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
33.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 Garfield Middle School
Garfield Middle School's state test result (33.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garfield Middle School this school | 971 | 66.6% | 33.9% |
| Albert E Grice Middle School HAMILTON | 991 | 64.0% | 28.8% |
| Richard C Crockett Middle School HAMILTON | 834 | 64.7% | 30.5% |
| Lincoln Middle School KEARNY | 763 | 72.5% | 28.2% |
| Thomas Jefferson Middle School LODI | 686 | 65.9% | 53.3% |
| School #6/Middle School CLIFFSIDE PARK | 679 | 68.3% | 41.7% |
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 Garfield Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.9% | #309 of 433 | #47 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #349 of 437 ▼ 19 | #48 of 53 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #317 of 437 ▼ 19 | #49 of 53 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 971 | #39 of 445 | #4 of 53 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #240 of 417 | #31 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.5% | #197 of 419 | #31 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.6% | #79 of 436 | #6 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.8% | #256 of 282 | #34 of 35 |
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
971
-18 (-2%) vs 2020
+206% since 1990-91, when it was 317
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 971 | 87.2 | 11.1:1 | 67% (647) |
| 2023-24 | 952 | 86.2 | 11.0:1 | 62% (586) |
| 2022-23 | 973 | 91.2 | 10.7:1 | 47% (454) |
| 2020-21 | 989 | 89 | 11.1:1 | 63% (622) |
| 2017-18 | 989 | 88 | 11.2:1 | 62% (617) |
| 2015-16 | 945 | 89 | 10.6:1 | 70% (666) |
| 2010-11 | 941 | 58 | 16.2:1 | 68% (642) |
| 2000-01 | 567 | 39 | 14.5:1 | 54% (309) |
| 1990-91 | 317 | 19 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Garfield Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (989 to 971); teachers down 1% (88 to 87.2).
About Garfield Middle School
Garfield Middle School is classified as a middle-grades school. It is located in GARFIELD, New Jersey. It had 971 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8. Middle schools in New Jersey average about 578 students, which makes this school 68% bigger than average.
Garfield Middle School is one school in Garfield Public School District, a system of 11 schools with 4,762 students.
The largest group at Garfield Middle School is Hispanic students, at 56%. The remaining students are 33% White and 9% Black. Among people living in Bergen County, the Hispanic share is about 23%. The diversity index for Garfield Middle School is 56%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its ratio of 11.1:1 is based on 87.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey is close to this figure. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 67%. It compares with 28% for public schools in Bergen County.
Garfield Middle School earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 49% of New Jersey public middle schools.
Garfield Middle School scores 33.9% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 29.7%.
In the wider Bergen County area, median household income comes to about $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bergen County's 291 public schools enroll about 133,883 students and include Garfield Middle School.
Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center is about 0.2 miles from Garfield Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Garfield Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 33.9% average proficiency ranks 5th among 7 nearby schools.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 989 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 971.
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Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Garfield Public School District
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,258 students
- Washington Irving School #4Elementary · 441 students
- Abraham Lincoln School #6Elementary · 385 students
- Thomas Jefferson School #9Elementary · 368 students
- Christopher Columbus School #8Elementary · 366 students
- Roosevelt School #7Elementary · 282 students
Other schools in GARFIELD
- Bergen Arts and Sciences Charter SchoolCombined · 1,276 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,258 students
- Washington Irving School #4Elementary · 441 students
- Abraham Lincoln School #6Elementary · 385 students
- Thomas Jefferson School #9Elementary · 368 students
- Christopher Columbus School #8Elementary · 366 students
Other Garfield Middle schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Garfield Middle. Garfield Middle School is the largest of the 6.
- Garfield Middle SchoolHamilton, OH · 814 students
- Garfield Middle SchoolRevere, MA · 542 students
- Garfield Middle SchoolLakewood, OH · 457 students
- GARFIELD MIDDLEALBUQUERQUE, NM · 282 students
- Garfield Middle SchoolGarfield, WA · 31 students
Nearby schools
- Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center0.2 mi · 204
- Washington Irving School #40.2 mi · 441
- Gantner Avenue School0.5 mi · 339
- Garfield High School0.5 mi · 1,258
- Thomas Jefferson School #90.8 mi · 368
- Christopher Columbus School #80.8 mi · 366
Frequently asked questions
About Garfield Middle SchoolHow large is Garfield Middle School?
Garfield Middle School enrolls approximately 971 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Garfield Middle School serve?
Garfield Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Garfield Middle School?
Approximately 11.1:1 students per teacher at Garfield Middle School.
How diverse is Garfield Middle School?
Garfield Middle School reports a student body of 33% White, 56% Hispanic, 9% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Garfield Middle School?
Garfield Middle School is overseen by Garfield Public School District in Bergen County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.