Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School

Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School is a 6-8 campus of reasonably sized scale in CLIFFWOOD, New Jersey, one of the schools within Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District, educateing 835 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School sits 44% larger than that benchmark.

Within Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District, which oversees 7 schools and 3,912 students, Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School lists that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 26% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 34% of students at Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Monmouth County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School is one of 186 public schools in Monmouth County (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cliffwood Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 891 students in 2018 compared to 835 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 16% to 26% over that span.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.