Grace Wilday Junior High School

As a close-knit middle school in ROSELLE, New Jersey, Grace Wilday Junior High School teaches 482 students from grades 7 through 8, operated by Roselle Public School District.

Roselle Public School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,147 students; Grace Wilday Junior High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Grace Wilday Junior High School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 47% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Grace Wilday Junior High School has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Union County's rate of about 52%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Grace Wilday Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Union County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Union County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), of which Grace Wilday Junior High School is one.

Linden High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grace Wilday Junior High School. On composite proficiency, Grace Wilday Junior High School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 21.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Grace Wilday Junior High School's enrollment has edged up 14% since 2018, when it stood at 422 (now 482). Hispanic enrollment moved from 40% to 50% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Grace Wilday Junior High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.