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Enrollment
522
Middle
DISTRICT 426 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAWTHORNE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340699004810
Lincoln Middle School
230 HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HAWTHORNE, NJ 07506 · (973) 423-6460 · Passaic County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL522 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% of New Jersey public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
10.2:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
207 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 6 | 196 | 38% |
| Grade 7 | 162 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 164 | 31% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Lincoln Middle School→Hawthorne High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Hawthorne Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
72.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +8.7pp since 2023
Math
34.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +11.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.6% | 34.2% |
| 2023-24 | 63.9% | 23.1% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Lincoln Middle School
Lincoln Middle School's state test result (44.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Middle School this school | 522 | 39.7% | 44.0% |
| Lyndhurst Middle School Lyndhurst | 610 | 38.7% | 42.3% |
| Veterans Middle School North Arlington | 426 | 43.7% | 46.1% |
| Von E. Mauger Middle School MIDDLESEX | 502 | 43.8% | 37.6% |
| Washington Park School TOTOWA | 485 | 32.4% | 46.1% |
| Hopatcong Middle School Hopatcong | 435 | 40.0% | 30.8% |
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 Lincoln Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Passaic County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #225 of 433 | #10 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.2% | #281 of 437 ▲ 57 | #12 of 21 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #126 of 437 ▲ 37 | #5 of 21 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 522 | #237 of 445 | #9 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #135 of 417 | #8 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.3% | #182 of 419 | #3 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.7% | #184 of 436 | #11 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #174 of 282 | #8 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
522
-47 (-8%) vs 2020
+50% since 1990-91, when it was 348
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 522 | 51.4 | 10.2:1 | 40% (207) |
| 2023-24 | 490 | 50.4 | 9.7:1 | 37% (183) |
| 2022-23 | 517 | 51.9 | 10.0:1 | 35% (179) |
| 2020-21 | 569 | 51 | 11.2:1 | 33% (187) |
| 2017-18 | 570 | 50 | 11.4:1 | 22% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 584 | 47 | 12.4:1 | 26% (152) |
| 2010-11 | 594 | 30 | 19.8:1 | 21% (123) |
| 2000-01 | 521 | 43 | 12.1:1 | 13% (66) |
| 1990-91 | 348 | 29 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (570 to 522); teachers up 3% (50 to 51.4).
About Lincoln Middle School
Lincoln Middle School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle-grades school in HAWTHORNE, New Jersey. The school serves 522 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25.
Hawthorne Public School District oversees Lincoln Middle School and 4 other schools, with 2,129 students in total.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Lincoln Middle School. The largest is Hispanic students, at 49%. Next come 41% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Lincoln Middle School's diversity index is 58%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reports 51.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 10.2 students per teacher. That is 0.7 students per teacher below the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 40% of students. The average for public schools in Passaic County is 61%.
Measured against New Jersey public middle schools, Lincoln Middle School receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Lincoln Middle School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 44.0%, compared with a predicted 44.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the county around the school, Passaic County, the median household income is $87,522, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. There are 155 public schools in Passaic County, enrolling about 83,237 students in all.
The next-closest public school is Hawthorne High School, about 0.5 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Lincoln Middle School. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Lincoln Middle School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
2024-25 enrollment was 522, an 8% decrease from 569 in 2020-21. The school's ratio fell from 11.2:1 to 10.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Discussion on this page can cover science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Passaic County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
521,012
Census ACS
Median income
$87,522
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
155
83,237 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hawthorne Public School District
- Hawthorne High SchoolHigh · 569 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 521 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 264 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 253 students
Other schools in HAWTHORNE
- Hawthorne High SchoolHigh · 569 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 521 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 264 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 253 students
Other Lincoln Middle schools
32 other US public schools in 20 states are named Lincoln Middle. Lincoln Middle School is the 19th largest of the 33.
- Lincoln Middle SchoolKEARNY, NJ · 763 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolDUNELLEN, NJ · 333 students
- Lincoln MiddleAlameda, CA · 971 students
- Lincoln MiddleSanta Monica, CA · 914 students
- LINCOLN MIDDLERIO RANCHO, NM · 805 students
Nearby schools
- Hawthorne High School0.5 mi · 569
- School 180.9 mi · 601
- Richard E Byrd School1.0 mi · 246
- Alexander Hamilton School1.0 mi · 300
- Roosevelt Elementary School1.0 mi · 521
- Westmoreland Elementary School1.1 mi · 359
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lincoln Middle School?
Lincoln Middle School enrolls approximately 522 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Lincoln Middle School serve?
Lincoln Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Lincoln Middle School have?
Lincoln Middle School employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Lincoln Middle School?
Student demographics at Lincoln Middle School are roughly 41% White, 49% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Lincoln Middle School in?
Lincoln Middle School is part of Hawthorne Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.