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Enrollment
859
Middle
DISTRICT 768 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHERRY HILL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340300001426
John A. Carusi Middle School
315 Roosevelt Dr., CHERRY HILL, NJ 08034 · (856) 667-1220 · Camden County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL859 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% 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.
- C-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
11.0:1
78 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
331 students
DISTRICT 24% · 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 | 296 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 300 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 263 | 31% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
58.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . +8.1pp since 2023
Math
37.7%
NJ avg 41.6% . +1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.7% | 37.7% |
| 2023-24 | 50.6% | 35.9% |
% 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
38.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 John A. Carusi Middle School
John A. Carusi Middle School's state test result (38.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| John A. Carusi Middle School this school | 859 | 38.5% | 38.1% |
| Lawrence Intermediate School LAWRENCEVILLE | 775 | 38.2% | 40.7% |
| Carl Sandburg Middle School OLD BRIDGE | 926 | 30.7% | 48.9% |
| Lawrence Middle School LAWRENCEVILLE | 584 | 37.7% | 48.7% |
| Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School CLIFFWOOD | 835 | 34.5% | 51.2% |
| Township of Ocean Intermediate School OCEAN | 889 | 37.3% | 43.8% |
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 John A. Carusi Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Camden County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.1% | #279 of 433 | #12 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.7% | #238 of 437 ▲ 2 | #8 of 24 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.7% | #234 of 437 ▲ 29 | #10 of 24 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 859 | #75 of 445 | #5 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #227 of 417 | #11 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.1% | #29 of 419 | #4 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.5% | #192 of 436 | #16 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.8% | #152 of 282 | #5 of 11 |
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
859
+13 (+2%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 701
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 859 | 78 | 11.0:1 | 39% (331) |
| 2023-24 | 884 | 80 | 11.1:1 | 32% (286) |
| 2022-23 | 841 | 78 | 10.8:1 | 29% (242) |
| 2020-21 | 846 | 80 | 10.6:1 | 30% (251) |
| 2017-18 | 952 | 76 | 12.5:1 | 34% (327) |
| 2015-16 | 904 | 78 | 11.6:1 | 35% (317) |
| 2010-11 | 981 | 67 | 14.6:1 | 29% (281) |
| 2000-01 | 911 | 60 | 15.2:1 | 9% (83) |
| 1990-91 | 701 | 47 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for John A. Carusi Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (952 to 859); teachers up 3% (76 to 78).
About John A. Carusi Middle School
Students in CHERRY HILL, New Jersey, attend John A. Carusi Middle School, a mid-sized middle school. The school enrolls 859 students in grades 6 through 8. That compares with an average of about 578 students for middle schools in New Jersey.
Cherry Hill School District has 19 schools and 10,653 students, and John A. Carusi Middle School is one of those schools.
No group is above 50% at John A. Carusi Middle School; the largest is White, at 45%. The school is also 22% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 12% Black, and 6% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 55%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, John A. Carusi Middle School scores 71%.
Its ratio of 11.0:1 is based on 78 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among middle schools in New Jersey is similar, at 10.9:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 39%. That is lower than the 50% average for public schools in Camden County.
John A. Carusi Middle School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 26% of New Jersey public middle schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, John A. Carusi Middle School falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 38.1% actual against 45.1% predicted.
For Camden County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $88,755, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 158 public schools in the county, enrolling about 82,104, John A. Carusi Middle School among them.
Joyce Kilmer Elementary School sits about 0.6 miles from John A. Carusi Middle School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. John A. Carusi Middle School places 5th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The federal government classifies John A. Carusi Middle School's location as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 846 in 2020-21, 859 in 2024-25.
Anyone can start a thread about open houses, carpools, and field trips at John A. Carusi Middle School. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Camden County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
527,257
Census ACS
Median income
$88,755
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
158
82,104 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cherry Hill School District
- Cherry Hill High School EastHigh · 2,120 students
- Cherry Hill High School WestHigh · 1,287 students
- Rosa International Middle SchoolMiddle · 745 students
- Henry C. Beck Middle SchoolMiddle · 701 students
- Clara Barton Elementary SchoolElementary · 494 students
- James Johnson Elementary SchoolElementary · 457 students
Other schools in CHERRY HILL
- Cherry Hill High School EastHigh · 2,120 students
- Cherry Hill High School WestHigh · 1,287 students
- Rosa International Middle SchoolMiddle · 745 students
- Henry C. Beck Middle SchoolMiddle · 701 students
- Clara Barton Elementary SchoolElementary · 494 students
- James Johnson Elementary SchoolElementary · 457 students
Nearby schools
- Joyce Kilmer Elementary School0.6 mi · 412
- Maude M. Wilkins Elementary School0.8 mi · 554
- Thomas Paine Elementary School0.8 mi · 342
- Maple Shade High School1.0 mi · 944
- Kingston Elementary School1.1 mi · 417
- Clara Barton Elementary School1.1 mi · 494
Frequently asked questions
About John A. Carusi Middle SchoolHow many students attend John A. Carusi Middle School?
John A. Carusi Middle School enrolls approximately 859 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does John A. Carusi Middle School serve?
John A. Carusi Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at John A. Carusi Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at John A. Carusi Middle School is approximately 11.0:1 (78 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at John A. Carusi Middle School?
Student demographics at John A. Carusi Middle School are roughly 45% White, 22% Hispanic, 12% Black, 15% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is John A. Carusi Middle School public or private?
John A. Carusi Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cherry Hill School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.