Hoboken Middle School

Hoboken Middle School is one of the intimate 6-8 campuss in HOBOKEN, New Jersey, part of Hoboken Public School District, with 438 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 24% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Hoboken Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by Hoboken Public School District, a district that instructs 2,724 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hoboken Middle School records that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 31% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hudson County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Hoboken Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.5%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hudson County put the typical household earns roughly $91,795 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Hudson County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), Hoboken Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Hoboken Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 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), Hoboken Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 133%: 188 students in 2018 compared to 438 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 15% to 47% across the same window.

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