Hillsborough Township Middle School

Set in Hillsborough, New Jersey, Hillsborough Township Middle School is a large middle school, one of the schools within Hillsborough Township Public School District. It serves 1,246 students across grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 116% above the state mean of about 578.

Within Hillsborough Township Public School District, which oversees 9 schools and 7,191 students, Hillsborough Township Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Hillsborough Township Middle School logs that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 36% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 7% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 111 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 16% of students at Hillsborough Township Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Somerset County (around 28%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hillsborough Township Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.2%, the actual is 60.7%, a residual of +3.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Somerset County shows median household earnings sit near $140,374, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Somerset County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), of which Hillsborough Township Middle School is one.

Triangle Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillsborough Township Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hillsborough Township Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.2%.

Hillsborough Township Middle School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Hillsborough Township Middle School's enrollment has climbed 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,196 (now 1,246). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 57% to 42%.

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