Glen Meadow Middle School

Set in VERNON, New Jersey, Glen Meadow Middle School is an average-sized 6-8 campus, operated by Vernon Township School District. It hosts 617 students across grades 6 through 8.

Within Vernon Township School District, which oversees 6 schools and 2,872 students, Glen Meadow Middle School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Glen Meadow Middle School lists that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 18% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Sussex County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Glen Meadow Middle School has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 25% of students at Glen Meadow Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Glen Meadow Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 52.2%; actual is 37.5%, a gap of -14.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Sussex County indicate median household earnings sit near $116,186, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sussex County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,579 students), of which Glen Meadow Middle School is one.

Cedar Mountain Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Glen Meadow Middle School. On composite proficiency, Glen Meadow Middle School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.6%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glen Meadow Middle School has ticked down 12%, going from 705 students in 2018 to 617 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 83% to 74%.

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