Manchester Township Middle School

Manchester Township Middle School operates as an average-sized intermediate school in MANCHESTER, New Jersey, part of Manchester Township School District. Current enrollment sits at 586 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Manchester Township Middle School is one of 6 schools operated by Manchester Township School District, a district that caters to 2,904 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Manchester Township Middle School shows that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 34% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Manchester Township Middle School has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Manchester Township Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Ocean County's rate of about 44%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Manchester Township Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.4%; this one delivers 37.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Ocean County shows median household income runs about $89,863, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Ocean County's 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,051 students), Manchester Township Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Ridgeway Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Manchester Township Middle School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 30.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 684 students in 2018 compared to 586 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 16% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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