Hubbard Middle School

Hubbard Middle School is an intermediate school of medium-sized scale in PLAINFIELD, New Jersey, one of the schools within Plainfield Public School District, instructing 737 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 28% bigger than the state mean of about 578.

Hubbard Middle School is one of 15 schools operated by Plainfield Public School District, a district that serves 8,522 students overall.

Demographically, Hubbard Middle School shows that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 11% Black. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 66 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. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Union County (around 52%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hubbard Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.9%, the actual is 19.7%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the area at large, Union County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Hubbard Middle School is one of 180 public schools in Union County (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students).

The closest other public school is Cresthaven Academy Charter School, roughly 0.3 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), Hubbard Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 21.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Hubbard Middle School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 749 (now 737). Black enrollment moved from 22% to 11% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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