Hackensack Middle School

Hackensack Middle School is one of the substantial 6-8 campuss in Hackensack, New Jersey, overseen by Hackensack School District, with 1,399 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 142% bigger than the state mean of about 578.

Hackensack Middle School is one of 6 schools operated by Hackensack School District, a district that works with 5,376 students overall.

Demographically, Hackensack Middle School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 19% Black, 4% White, 4% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 128 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hackensack Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.5%, the actual is 26.9%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Bergen County put median household earnings sit near $124,884, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Hackensack Middle School is one of 291 public schools in Bergen County (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students).

The closest other public school is Hackensack High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hackensack Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.2%.

Hackensack Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Hackensack Middle School's enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,466 (now 1,399). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 63% to 71% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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