Long Branch Middle School

Long Branch Middle School is a 6-8 campus of substantial scale in LONG BRANCH, New Jersey, part of LONG BRANCH PUBLIC SCHOOL District, teacheing 1,142 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 98% bigger than the state mean of about 578.

Long Branch Middle School is one of 8 schools operated by LONG BRANCH PUBLIC SCHOOL District, a district that enrolls 5,368 students overall.

Demographically, Long Branch Middle School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder reads as 20% White, 11% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Monmouth County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 107 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 82% of students at Long Branch Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Monmouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Long Branch Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.6%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Monmouth County put the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), Long Branch Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Long Branch High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Long Branch Middle School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Long Branch Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 31.5%.

Long Branch Middle School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Long Branch Middle School has stayed largely flat, going from 1,160 students in 2018 to 1,142 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 55% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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