Maxson Middle School

Maxson Middle School is one of the reasonably sized intermediate schools in PLAINFIELD, New Jersey, overseen by Plainfield Public School District, with 721 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 578 students per school, that is 25% above typical.

Maxson Middle School is one of 15 schools operated by Plainfield Public School District, a district that enrolls 8,522 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Maxson Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%); the rest comes out to 15% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the resource side, Maxson Middle School shows 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Maxson Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Union County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Maxson Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.8%.

Across the wider county, census data for Union County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Maxson Middle School is one of 180 public schools in Union County (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students).

Charles and Anna Booker Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maxson Middle School. On composite proficiency, Maxson Middle School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.3%.

Maxson Middle School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 6%: 679 students in 2018 compared to 721 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 65% to 83%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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