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Best kept secret at Glen Landing Middle School?
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Enrollment
795
Middle
DISTRICT 812 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340603001516
Glen Landing Middle School
85 LITTLE GLOUCESTER ROAD, BLACKWOOD, NJ 08012 · (856) 227-3534 · Camden County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL795 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% 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
11.7:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
295 students
DISTRICT 46% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 128 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 214 | 27% |
| Grade 7 | 219 | 28% |
| Grade 8 | 234 | 29% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
57.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.5pp since 2023
Math
35.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.1% | 35.5% |
| 2023-24 | 53.6% | 33.5% |
% 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
41.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Glen Landing Middle School
Glen Landing Middle School's state test result (41.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Landing Middle School this school | 795 | 37.1% | 41.3% |
| Deptford Township Middle School SEWELL | 895 | 38.3% | 40.1% |
| West Deptford Middle School WEST DEPTFORD | 859 | 36.7% | 44.4% |
| Township of Ocean Intermediate School OCEAN | 889 | 37.3% | 43.8% |
| Samuel S. Yellin Elementary School STRATFORD | 527 | 33.0% | 38.1% |
| Veterans Memorial Middle School BRICK TOWN | 865 | 35.4% | 43.4% |
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 Glen Landing Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Camden County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #246 of 433 | #8 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #269 of 437 ▼ 6 | #10 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #241 of 437 ▲ 4 | #11 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 795 | #92 of 445 | #7 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #302 of 417 | #16 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.1% | #128 of 419 | #11 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.1% | #200 of 436 | #17 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.3% | #68 of 122 | #8 of 11 |
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
795
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 1,004
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 795 | 68 | 11.7:1 | 37% (295) |
| 2023-24 | 796 | 69 | 11.5:1 | 31% (247) |
| 2022-23 | 790 | 68.9 | 11.5:1 | 34% (269) |
| 2020-21 | 794 | 66 | 12.0:1 | 33% (264) |
| 2017-18 | 741 | 65 | 11.4:1 | 31% (227) |
| 2015-16 | 768 | 65 | 11.8:1 | 32% (249) |
| 2010-11 | 833 | 46 | 18.1:1 | 24% (197) |
| 2000-01 | 939 | 66 | 14.2:1 | 14% (132) |
| 1990-91 | 1,004 | 75 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Glen Landing Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (741 to 795); teachers up 5% (65 to 68).
About Glen Landing Middle School
Glen Landing Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school. Its address is in BLACKWOOD, New Jersey. The school serves 795 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. For comparison, middle schools in New Jersey average about 578 students.
Gloucester Township Public Schools (11 schools, 6,502 students) runs Glen Landing Middle School.
A majority of students at Glen Landing Middle School, 55%, are White. The next largest groups are 19% Black, 15% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 4% Asian. County-wide, about 55% of residents are White. Glen Landing Middle School has a diversity index of 63%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal staffing data show 68 full-time-equivalent teachers at Glen Landing Middle School and a ratio of 11.7:1. The average ratio among middle schools in New Jersey is 10.9:1, lower than at this school. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 37% of enrollment. The gap from the 50% average for public schools in Camden County is 13 points.
Measured against New Jersey public middle schools, Glen Landing Middle School receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Glen Landing Middle School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 41.3%, compared with a predicted 45.9%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
Federal survey data for Camden County show that median household income is about $88,755, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Glen Landing Middle School is among the 158 public schools in Camden County.
The nearest other public school, Loring Flemming Elementary School, is about 0.1 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Glen Landing Middle School. On state test proficiency, Glen Landing Middle School ranks 2nd in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 795, close to the 794 recorded in 2020-21.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at Glen Landing Middle School. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Camden County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
527,257
Census ACS
Median income
$88,755
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
158
82,104 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Gloucester Township Public Schools
- Ann A. Mullen Middle SchoolMiddle · 937 students
- Chews Elementary SchoolElementary · 716 students
- Charles W. Lewis Middle SchoolMiddle · 704 students
- Erial Elementary SchoolElementary · 643 students
- Loring Flemming Elementary SchoolElementary · 629 students
- Blackwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 574 students
Other schools in BLACKWOOD
- Highland Regional High SchoolHigh · 1,150 students
- Chews Elementary SchoolElementary · 716 students
- Charles W. Lewis Middle SchoolMiddle · 704 students
- Loring Flemming Elementary SchoolElementary · 629 students
- Blackwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 574 students
- Gloucester Township Elementary SchoolElementary · 222 students
Nearby schools
- Loring Flemming Elementary School0.1 mi · 629
- Chews Elementary School1.1 mi · 716
- Glendora Elementary School1.2 mi · 233
- Parkview Elementary School1.3 mi · 357
- Blackwood Elementary School1.5 mi · 574
- Highland Regional High School1.7 mi · 1,150
Frequently asked questions
About Glen Landing Middle SchoolHow many students attend Glen Landing Middle School?
Glen Landing Middle School enrolls approximately 795 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Glen Landing Middle School serve?
Glen Landing Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Glen Landing Middle School?
Approximately 11.7:1 students per teacher at Glen Landing Middle School.
How diverse is Glen Landing Middle School?
Glen Landing Middle School reports a student body of 55% White, 15% Hispanic, 19% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Glen Landing Middle School public or private?
Glen Landing Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Gloucester Township Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.