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Enrollment
1,060
Middle
DISTRICT 1,038 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDISON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340450003330
Herbert Hoover Middle School
174 JACKSON AVENUE, EDISON, NJ 08837 · (732) 452-2940 · Middlesex County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,060 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% of New Jersey public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
81 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
470 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 351 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 353 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 356 | 34% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
58.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.6pp since 2023
Math
36.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . -1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.1% | 36.4% |
| 2023-24 | 56.5% | 38.3% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Herbert Hoover Middle School
Herbert Hoover Middle School's state test result (40.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert Hoover Middle School this school | 1,060 | 44.3% | 40.1% |
| Thomas Jefferson Middle School EDISON | 954 | 45.6% | 39.9% |
| Iselin Middle School ISELIN | 794 | 36.1% | 52.3% |
| Middle School # 4 JERSEY CITY | 755 | 55.5% | 50.8% |
| Theodore Schor Middle School PISCATAWAY | 563 | 47.4% | 44.7% |
| Lewis F. Cole Middle School FORT LEE | 1,227 | 25.1% | 63.6% |
Matched among New Jersey middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Herbert Hoover Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #255 of 433 | #17 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.4% | #261 of 437 ▼ 35 | #21 of 39 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #238 of 437 ▼ 14 | #16 of 39 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,060 | #27 of 445 | #6 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #378 of 417 | #36 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.9% | #31 of 419 | #9 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.3% | #166 of 436 | #21 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +28.3% | #15 of 122 | #4 of 14 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,060
+94 (+10%) vs 2020
+59% since 1990-91, when it was 668
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 12.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,060 | 80.6 | 13.2:1 | 44% (470) |
| 2023-24 | 1,031 | 81.2 | 12.7:1 | 39% (399) |
| 2022-23 | 961 | 76.7 | 12.5:1 | 32% (304) |
| 2020-21 | 966 | 79 | 12.2:1 | 23% (220) |
| 2017-18 | 826 | 75.8 | 10.9:1 | 33% (269) |
| 2015-16 | 821 | 76 | 10.8:1 | 29% (242) |
| 2010-11 | 827 | 80 | 10.3:1 | 23% (190) |
| 2000-01 | 718 | 62 | 11.6:1 | 16% (113) |
| 1990-91 | 668 | 41 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Herbert Hoover Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 28% (826 to 1,060); teachers up 6% (75.8 to 80.6).
About Herbert Hoover Middle School
Herbert Hoover Middle School runs as a high-enrollment middle school in EDISON, New Jersey. It covers grades 6 through 8, with a total enrollment of 1,060 students. Enrollment is 83% higher than the average for middle schools in New Jersey, which is about 578.
Edison Township School District is the district for Herbert Hoover Middle School. It has 19 schools and 16,617 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Herbert Hoover Middle School. The largest is Asian students, at 43%. Other students are 25% Hispanic, 15% White, 13% Black, and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 26% Asian share among all Middlesex County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 71% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school has about 13.2 students per teacher and 80.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. That tracks the 42% average for public schools in Middlesex County.
Herbert Hoover Middle School is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 41% of New Jersey public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The model predicts 41.9% for a school in New Jersey with Herbert Hoover Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Herbert Hoover Middle School posts 40.1%.
Census estimates describe Middlesex County this way: the median household income is $111,549, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. In all, Middlesex County has 214 public schools and roughly 129,255 students.
Nearest public school: James Monroe Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 49.9%; Herbert Hoover Middle School's is 40.1%, ranking 5th of 8.
In the federal locale system, Herbert Hoover Middle School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Herbert Hoover Middle School's enrollment grew from 966 in 2020-21 to 1,060 in 2024-25.
The Herbert Hoover Middle School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Edison Township School District
- John P. Stevens High SchoolHigh · 2,687 students
- Edison High SchoolHigh · 2,393 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,206 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 954 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 946 students
- John Adams Middle SchoolMiddle · 930 students
Other schools in EDISON
- John P. Stevens High SchoolHigh · 2,687 students
- Edison High SchoolHigh · 2,393 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,206 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 954 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 946 students
- John Adams Middle SchoolMiddle · 930 students
Other Herbert Hoover Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Herbert Hoover Middle. Herbert Hoover Middle School is the largest of the 5.
- Herbert Hoover MiddlePotomac, MD · 930 students
- Herbert Hoover MiddleSan Jose, CA · 910 students
- HERBERT HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOLBUFFALO, NY · 772 students
- Herbert Hoover MiddleMerced, CA · 629 students
Nearby schools
- James Monroe Elementary School0.7 mi · 537
- Mildred B. Moss Elementary School1.0 mi · 152
- Fords Middle School1.1 mi · 645
- Dual Language School1.1 mi · 384
- Edgar Middle School1.2 mi · 761
- Lafayette Estates Elementary School1.6 mi · 705
Frequently asked questions
About Herbert Hoover Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Herbert Hoover Middle School?
Herbert Hoover Middle School enrolls approximately 1,060 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Herbert Hoover Middle School serve?
Herbert Hoover Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Herbert Hoover Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Herbert Hoover Middle School is approximately 13.2:1 (81 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Herbert Hoover Middle School?
At Herbert Hoover Middle School, the student body is approximately 15% White, 25% Hispanic, 13% Black, 43% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Herbert Hoover Middle School public or private?
Herbert Hoover Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Edison Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.