Kawameeh Middle School

Kawameeh Middle School operates as a moderately sized junior high in UNION, New Jersey, one of the schools within Township of Union School District. Current enrollment sits at 729 students spanning grades 5 through 8. That puts it 26% above the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Across the 10 schools in Township of Union School District (7,845 students total), Kawameeh Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Kawameeh Middle School records that 35% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 34% Black, 19% White, 8% Asian, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school reports having 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Kawameeh Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Union County's rate of about 52%.

After controlling for student poverty, Kawameeh Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.5%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of +0.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Union County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Union County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), of which Kawameeh Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Work Readiness Academy, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kawameeh Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kawameeh Middle School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.1%.

Kawameeh Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kawameeh Middle School has rose 9%, going from 666 students in 2018 to 729 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 28% to 19% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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