Joseph E. Soehl Middle School

As a mid-sized intermediate school in Linden, New Jersey, Joseph E. Soehl Middle School teaches 710 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Linden Public School District. Enrollment runs roughly 23% larger than the state mean of about 578.

Linden Public School District runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 6,441 students. Joseph E. Soehl Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Joseph E. Soehl Middle School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 34% Black, 11% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. Roughly 75% of students at Joseph E. Soehl Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Union County's rate of about 52%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Joseph E. Soehl Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Union County shows median household income runs about $103,202, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Union County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), of which Joseph E. Soehl Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Number 1, around 0.3 miles off. 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), Joseph E. Soehl Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Joseph E. Soehl Middle School's enrollment has increased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 642 (now 710). Hispanic enrollment moved from 43% to 49% across the same window.

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