Lincoln Park Middle School

Set in LINCOLN PARK, New Jersey, Lincoln Park Middle School is an intimate 6-8 campus, part of Lincoln Park School District. It teaches 368 students across grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 578 students per school, that is 36% below typical.

Within Lincoln Park School District, which oversees 2 schools and 868 students, Lincoln Park Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Lincoln Park Middle School shows that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Hispanic, 8% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Lincoln Park Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Lincoln Park Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.8%, the actual is 60.3%, a residual of +7.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Morris County shows the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Lincoln Park Middle School is one of 156 public schools in Morris County (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students).

Nearest neighbor: Stephen J. Gerace School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Park Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lincoln Park Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Lincoln Park Middle School's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 418 (now 368). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 19% to 27%.

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