Lincoln Middle School

Lincoln Middle School operates as a compact middle-grades school in DUNELLEN, New Jersey, part of Dunellen Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 333 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Lincoln Middle School sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Dunellen Public School District (1,363 students total), Lincoln Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Lincoln Middle School logs that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 22% White, 14% Black, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lincoln Middle School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Lincoln Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 48% of students at Lincoln Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Lincoln Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 27.9%, a residual of -12.2 points.

Around the school, Middlesex County reports that median household earnings sit near $111,549, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Lincoln Middle School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

Dunellen High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lincoln Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lincoln Middle School has rose 35%, going from 246 students in 2018 to 333 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 37% to 22% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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