Herbert Hoover Middle School

Herbert Hoover Middle School operates as a sizable intermediate school in EDISON, New Jersey, part of Edison Township School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,060 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 83% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Herbert Hoover Middle School is one of 19 schools operated by Edison Township School District, a district that serves 16,617 students overall.

Demographically, Herbert Hoover Middle School records that the most-represented group is Asian (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 25% Hispanic, 15% White, 13% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Herbert Hoover Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.9%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household income runs about $111,549, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), Herbert Hoover Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is James Monroe Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Herbert Hoover Middle School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Herbert Hoover Middle School has grew 28%, going from 826 students in 2018 to 1,060 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 26% to 15%. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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