James Madison Intermediate School

James Madison Intermediate School is one of the average-sized elementary-level communitys in EDISON, New Jersey, run under Edison Township School District, with 586 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 45% above typical.

James Madison Intermediate School is one of 19 schools operated by Edison Township School District, a district that caters to 16,617 students overall.

On the student-mix side, James Madison Intermediate School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (84%); the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% White, 3% Native American. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, James Madison Intermediate School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting James Madison Intermediate School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Middlesex County's rate of about 42%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), James Madison Intermediate School sits in the top 10% of New Jersey schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 58.4%; actual is 76.0%, +17.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Middlesex County put the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Middlesex County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), of which James Madison Intermediate School is one.

Nearest neighbor: James Madison Primary School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around James Madison Intermediate School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), James Madison Intermediate School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 66.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at James Madison Intermediate School has ticked down 12%, going from 663 students in 2018 to 586 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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