Green Brook Middle School

Located at 132 Jefferson Avenue, in Green Brook, New Jersey, Green Brook Middle School is a modestly sized middle-grades school that works with 304 students (grades 5 through 8), overseen by Green Brook Township Public School District. Compared to the state average of about 578 students per school, that is 47% below typical.

Across the 2 schools in Green Brook Township Public School District (708 students total), Green Brook Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Green Brook Middle School records that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 26% Hispanic, 24% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Somerset County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. Roughly 20% of students at Green Brook Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Somerset County's rate of about 28%.

After controlling for student poverty, Green Brook Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.4%, the actual is 48.1%, a residual of -7.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Somerset County put the typical household earns roughly $140,374 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Somerset County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), Green Brook Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Jefferson Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Green Brook Middle School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Green Brook Middle School's enrollment has edged down 28% since 2018, when it stood at 424 (now 304). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 14% to 26% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

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