John Adams Middle School

As a roomy junior high in EDISON, New Jersey, John Adams Middle School educates 930 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Edison Township School District. Enrollment runs roughly 61% bigger than the state mean of about 578.

Edison Township School District comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 16,617 students; John Adams Middle School is among them.

Demographically, John Adams Middle School records that 85% of students identify as Asian, making the school strongly Asian-majority; the rest looks like 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, John Adams Middle School records 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Middlesex County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, John Adams Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.0%; this one delivers 68.7%.

Around the school, census data for Middlesex County shows median household earnings sit near $111,549, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), John Adams Middle School is one campus in the mix.

John P. Stevens High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John Adams Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts John Adams Middle School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 68.4%.

John Adams Middle School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. John Adams Middle School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 952 (now 930). White enrollment moved from 6% to 2% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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