Lyndhurst Middle School

Lyndhurst Middle School is one of the mid-sized junior highs in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, operated by Lyndhurst Public School District, with 610 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Lyndhurst Public School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 2,606 students; Lyndhurst Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Lyndhurst Middle School records that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 43% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Lyndhurst Middle School logs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. Roughly 39% of students at Lyndhurst Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lyndhurst Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 42.3%, a residual of -2.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Bergen County put the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which Lyndhurst Middle School is one.

Washington School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lyndhurst Middle School. On composite proficiency, Lyndhurst Middle School comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

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