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How has Joyce Kilmer School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
444
Middle
DISTRICT 391 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MILLTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341029003432
Joyce Kilmer School
21 West Church Street, Milltown, NJ 08850 · (732) 214-2370 · Middlesex County
GRADES 04–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL444 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% 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.
- DBeats 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
10.4:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
97 students
DISTRICT 25% · 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 4 | 91 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 6 | 87 | 20% |
| Grade 7 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 108 | 24% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Milltown School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
53.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +7.3pp since 2023
Math
41.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . +3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.3% | 41.8% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 38.3% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Joyce Kilmer School
Joyce Kilmer School's state test result (39.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joyce Kilmer School this school | 444 | 21.8% | 39.3% |
| Bernardsville Middle School Bernardsville | 419 | 17.9% | 62.1% |
| Northfield Community Middle School NORTHFIELD | 397 | 25.9% | 53.4% |
| George Washington Middle School WAYNE | 493 | 19.1% | 56.6% |
| Great Meadows Regional Middle School GREAT MEADOWS | 361 | 21.9% | 48.2% |
| Eisenhower Middle School SUCCASUNNA | 531 | 21.3% | 45.0% |
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 Joyce Kilmer School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #265 of 433 | #20 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #220 of 437 ▲ 7 | #14 of 39 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #274 of 437 ▲ 13 | #21 of 39 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 444 | #290 of 445 | #34 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #153 of 417 | #11 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.8% | #287 of 419 | #32 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.8% | #270 of 436 | #33 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.0% | #65 of 122 | #9 of 14 |
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
444
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 348
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 11.5:1
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 | 444 | 42.8 | 10.4:1 | 22% (97) |
| 2023-24 | 436 | 43.8 | 9.9:1 | 18% (80) |
| 2022-23 | 449 | 40.7 | 11.0:1 | 16% (70) |
| 2020-21 | 449 | 39 | 11.5:1 | 14% (61) |
| 2017-18 | 411 | 34.7 | 11.8:1 | 9% (37) |
| 2015-16 | 393 | 33 | 11.9:1 | 9% (37) |
| 2010-11 | 321 | 22 | 14.6:1 | 12% (39) |
| 2000-01 | 440 | 27 | 16.3:1 | 4% (17) |
| 1990-91 | 348 | 28 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Joyce Kilmer School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (411 to 444); teachers up 23% (34.7 to 42.8).
About Joyce Kilmer School
Joyce Kilmer School is a small middle school serving families in Milltown, New Jersey. The school enrolls 444 students in grades 4 through 8. That compares with an average of about 578 students for middle schools in New Jersey.
Milltown School District enrolls 782 students in 2 schools, including Joyce Kilmer School.
At Joyce Kilmer School, 69% of students are White. Other students are 23% Hispanic, 3% Black, and 3% Asian. That is higher than the 41% White share among all Middlesex County residents. The diversity index for Joyce Kilmer School is 47%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are 42.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at Joyce Kilmer School, giving a ratio of 10.4:1. That is in line with the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey. A total of 97 students, or 22%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 42% average for public schools in Middlesex County is 20 points higher.
Among New Jersey public middle schools, Joyce Kilmer School outscored 19%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Joyce Kilmer School is among the bottom 10% of schools in New Jersey. Predicted: 54.2%. Actual: 39.3%.
In Middlesex County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $111,549, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 214 public schools in the county, enrolling about 129,255, Joyce Kilmer School among them.
Parkview School is the nearest public school to Joyce Kilmer School, about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Joyce Kilmer School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Joyce Kilmer School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Joyce Kilmer School had 449 students in 2020-21 and 444 in 2024-25, nearly the same. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 10.4:1, from 11.5:1.
Joyce Kilmer School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other Joyce Kilmer schools
One other US public school is named Joyce Kilmer. Joyce Kilmer School is the largest of the 2.
- Joyce Kilmer SchoolMAHWAH, NJ · 394 students
Nearby schools
- Parkview School0.5 mi · 338
- Lawrence Brook Elementary School1.4 mi · 362
- North Brunswick Township High School1.5 mi · 1,876
- Linwood School1.5 mi · 761
- North Brunswick Twp Early Childhood Center1.5 mi · 106
- Parsons1.7 mi · 566
Frequently asked questions
About Joyce Kilmer SchoolHow many students attend Joyce Kilmer School?
Joyce Kilmer School enrolls approximately 444 students in grades 04-08.
What age range does Joyce Kilmer School serve?
Joyce Kilmer School serves students from grade 04 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Joyce Kilmer School?
Approximately 10.4:1 students per teacher at Joyce Kilmer School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Joyce Kilmer School?
At Joyce Kilmer School, the student body is approximately 69% White, 23% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Joyce Kilmer School public or private?
Joyce Kilmer School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Milltown School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.