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What advice would you give to incoming students at Maplewood Middle School?
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Enrollment
762
Middle
DISTRICT 757 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH ORANGE-MAPLEWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341533002424
Maplewood Middle School
7 BURNETT ST, MAPLEWOOD, NJ 07040 · (973) 378-7660 · Essex County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL762 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of New Jersey public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
9.5:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
142 students
DISTRICT 14% · 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 | 265 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 244 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 253 | 33% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
Maplewood Middle School→Columbia High School
Based on grade levels within South Orange-Maplewood School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
68.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.9pp since 2023
Math
55.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.5% | 55.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.6% | 49.7% |
% 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
48.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 Maplewood Middle School
Maplewood Middle School's state test result (48.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maplewood Middle School this school | 762 | 18.6% | 48.2% |
| South Orange Middle School S ORANGE | 752 | 11.6% | 52.4% |
| Buzz Aldrin Middle School UPPER MONTCLAIR | 618 | 17.2% | 52.0% |
| Glenfield Middle School MONTCLAIR | 512 | 19.9% | 56.4% |
| Kingsway Regional Middle School WOOLWICH TWP | 939 | 18.8% | 45.6% |
| T. E. Harrington Middle School MOUNT LAUREL | 948 | 22.8% | 48.2% |
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 Maplewood Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #198 of 433 | #15 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #144 of 437 ▲ 13 | #12 of 28 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.5% | #156 of 437 ▲ 12 | #15 of 28 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 762 | #101 of 445 | #4 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.5:1 | #88 of 417 | #8 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.0% | #119 of 419 | #9 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.6% | #291 of 436 | #13 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.2% | #108 of 122 | #9 of 11 |
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
762
-39 (-5%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 545
Student : Teacher
9.5:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 762 | 80 | 9.5:1 | 19% (142) |
| 2023-24 | 733 | 80 | 9.2:1 | 18% (131) |
| 2022-23 | 721 | 79 | 9.1:1 | 15% (110) |
| 2020-21 | 801 | 77 | 10.4:1 | 20% (159) |
| 2017-18 | 753 | 71 | 10.6:1 | 24% (184) |
| 2015-16 | 768 | 63 | 12.2:1 | 23% (175) |
| 2010-11 | 716 | 49 | 14.6:1 | 23% (162) |
| 2000-01 | 780 | 48 | 16.3:1 | 24% (187) |
| 1990-91 | 545 | 39 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Maplewood Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (753 to 762); teachers up 13% (71 to 80).
About Maplewood Middle School
In MAPLEWOOD, New Jersey, Maplewood Middle School is a medium-sized middle school. A total of 762 students attend the school, which covers grades 6 through 8. The average for middle schools in New Jersey is about 578 students, so this school is 32% above average.
A total of 10 schools make up South Orange-Maplewood School District, with 6,728 students enrolled.
By race and ethnicity, Maplewood Middle School is 53% White. After that, the student body is 23% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Census figures show Essex County is about 30% White. Maplewood Middle School has a diversity index of 64%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Maplewood Middle School counts 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 9.5 students for each one. Among middle schools in New Jersey, the typical ratio is 10.9:1. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Essex County, the average eligibility rate is 54%.
Measured against New Jersey public middle schools, Maplewood Middle School receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Maplewood Middle School is 7.8 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 48.2% actual, 56.0% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New Jersey.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Essex County show that median household income is about $80,789, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 249 public schools in Essex County, with a combined enrollment of about 145,473.
The shortest distance from Maplewood Middle School to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to Tuscan Elementary School. The five-mile area around Maplewood Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Maplewood Middle School comes in 7th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Federal counts put enrollment at 801 in 2020-21 and 762 in 2024-25, a 5% decrease.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South Orange-Maplewood School District
- Columbia High SchoolHigh · 1,985 students
- South Orange Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- South Mountain Elementary SchoolElementary · 613 students
- Clinton Elementary SchoolElementary · 542 students
- Tuscan Elementary SchoolElementary · 531 students
- Delia Bolden Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
Other schools in MAPLEWOOD
- Columbia High SchoolHigh · 1,985 students
- Clinton Elementary SchoolElementary · 542 students
- Tuscan Elementary SchoolElementary · 531 students
- Delia Bolden Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
- Seth Boyden Elementary Demonstration SchoolElementary · 423 students
Other Maplewood Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Maplewood Middle. Maplewood Middle School is the largest of the 3.
- Maplewood MiddleMenasha, WI · 676 students
- Maplewood Middle SchoolSulphur, LA · 319 students
Nearby schools
- Tuscan Elementary School0.4 mi · 531
- Delia Bolden Elementary School0.4 mi · 518
- Columbia High School0.7 mi · 1,985
- Wyoming School0.7 mi · 346
- Jefferson Elementary0.9 mi · 564
- Clinton Elementary School1.2 mi · 542
Frequently asked questions
About Maplewood Middle SchoolHow many students attend Maplewood Middle School?
Maplewood Middle School enrolls approximately 762 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Maplewood Middle School serve?
Maplewood Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Maplewood Middle School?
Approximately 9.5:1 students per teacher at Maplewood Middle School.
How diverse is Maplewood Middle School?
Maplewood Middle School reports a student body of 53% White, 12% Hispanic, 23% Black, 4% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Maplewood Middle School?
Maplewood Middle School is overseen by South Orange-Maplewood School District in Essex County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.