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What's the biggest difference between Madison Junior School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
555
Middle
DISTRICT 473 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340924004308
Madison Junior School
160 MAIN STREET, MADISON, NJ 07940 · (973) 593-3149 · Morris County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL555 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 83% of New Jersey public middle schools
- ATest 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
11.2:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
8%
42 students
DISTRICT 9% · 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 | 184 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 182 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 189 | 34% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
Madison Junior School→Madison High School
Based on grade levels within Madison Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
79.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +8.8pp since 2023
Math
74.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +8.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 9 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.6% | 74.4% |
| 2023-24 | 70.8% | 65.7% |
% 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
64.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 Madison Junior School
Madison Junior School's state test result (64.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Junior School this school | 555 | 7.6% | 64.8% |
| Valleyview Middle School DENVILLE | 571 | 6.0% | 61.5% |
| George G White HILLSDALE | 490 | 10.6% | 65.9% |
| Schuyler Colfax Middle School WAYNE | 650 | 10.2% | 64.8% |
| Eric S. Smith Middle School RAMSEY | 613 | 5.7% | 64.6% |
| Anthony Wayne Middle School WAYNE | 617 | 12.0% | 59.4% |
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 Madison Junior School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Morris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.8% | #59 of 433 | #7 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.4% | #36 of 437 ▲ 22 | #5 of 32 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.6% | #65 of 437 ▲ 43 | #8 of 32 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 555 | #215 of 445 | #12 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #247 of 417 | #30 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.6% | #250 of 419 | #19 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.6% | #374 of 436 | #20 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.3% | #138 of 282 | #12 of 21 |
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
555
-34 (-6%) vs 2020
+113% since 1990-91, when it was 261
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 555 | 49.6 | 11.2:1 | 8% (42) |
| 2023-24 | 557 | 50.1 | 11.1:1 | 3% (19) |
| 2022-23 | 579 | 50.1 | 11.6:1 | 8% (49) |
| 2020-21 | 589 | 48 | 12.3:1 | 7% (44) |
| 2017-18 | 626 | 46.5 | 13.5:1 | 6% (37) |
| 2015-16 | 609 | 51 | 11.9:1 | 6% (34) |
| 2010-11 | 536 | 35 | 15.3:1 | 6% (30) |
| 2000-01 | 307 | 23 | 13.3:1 | 6% (18) |
| 1990-91 | 261 | 25 | 10.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Madison Junior School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (626 to 555); teachers up 7% (46.5 to 49.6).
About Madison Junior School
Madison Junior School is a public middle school run by Madison Public School District in MADISON, New Jersey. It enrolls 555 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 6 through 8.
Madison Public School District is the district for Madison Junior School. It has 5 schools and 2,364 students.
About 67% of the student body at Madison Junior School is White. The remaining students are 15% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. Morris County residents are about 68% White, a similar share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 52%.
Madison Junior School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1, with 49.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 8% at Madison Junior School. Compared with the 19% average for public schools in Morris County, the school's rate is lower.
Among New Jersey public middle schools, Madison Junior School outscored 83%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Madison Junior School is 2.8 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 64.8% actual, 62.0% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New Jersey.
American Community Survey estimates for Morris County show that median household income comes to about $137,326, roughly 58% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. The county's public schools total 156, with about 72,239 students.
Madison Junior School's closest public school neighbor is Central Avenue School, about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles of Madison Junior School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Madison Junior School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Madison Junior School enrolled 589 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 555. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 12.3:1 to 11.2:1.
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Morris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
514,528
Census ACS
Median income
$137,326
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
156
72,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Madison Public School District
- Madison High SchoolHigh · 761 students
- Central Avenue SchoolElementary · 492 students
- Torey J. Sabatini SchoolElementary · 281 students
- Kings Road SchoolElementary · 275 students
Other schools in MADISON
- Madison High SchoolHigh · 761 students
- Central Avenue SchoolElementary · 492 students
- Torey J. Sabatini SchoolElementary · 281 students
- Kings Road SchoolElementary · 275 students
Nearby schools
- Central Avenue School0.4 mi · 492
- Kings Road School0.6 mi · 275
- Madison High School1.0 mi · 761
- Torey J. Sabatini School1.0 mi · 281
- Chatham Middle School1.2 mi · 833
- Ridgedale Middle School1.5 mi · 321
Frequently asked questions
About Madison Junior SchoolHow large is Madison Junior School?
Madison Junior School enrolls approximately 555 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Madison Junior School serve?
Madison Junior School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Madison Junior School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Madison Junior School is approximately 11.2:1 (50 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Madison Junior School?
At Madison Junior School, the student body is approximately 67% White, 15% Hispanic, 3% Black, 11% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Madison Junior School in?
Madison Junior School is part of Madison Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.