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If you could change one rule at Memorial Middle School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
569
Middle
DISTRICT 519 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELMWOOD PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340466000075
Memorial Middle School
375 RIVER DRIVE, ELMWOOD PARK, NJ 07407 · (201) 796-8700 · Bergen County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL569 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of New Jersey public middle schools
- C-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
12.5:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
303 students
DISTRICT 54% · 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 | 192 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 197 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 180 | 32% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Memorial Middle School→Memorial Senior High School
Based on grade levels within Elmwood Park School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
50.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.4pp since 2023
Math
19.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.1% | 19.6% |
| 2023-24 | 48.7% | 14.9% |
% 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
29.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 Memorial Middle School
Memorial Middle School's state test result (29.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Middle School this school | 569 | 53.3% | 29.7% |
| Sgt. Dominick Pilla Middle School Vineland | 620 | 53.4% | 26.0% |
| Woodbridge Middle School WOODBRIDGE | 513 | 56.7% | 19.7% |
| Roselle Park Middle School ROSELLE PARK | 438 | 54.3% | 34.7% |
| Von E. Mauger Middle School MIDDLESEX | 502 | 43.8% | 37.6% |
| Christa McAuliffe Middle School Jackson | 665 | 57.9% | 36.6% |
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 Memorial Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #336 of 433 | #48 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.6% | #364 of 437 ▲ 21 | #49 of 53 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.1% | #292 of 437 ▼ 20 | #48 of 53 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 569 | #202 of 445 | #23 of 53 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #353 of 417 | #47 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.1% | #87 of 419 | #9 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.3% | #128 of 436 | #9 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.2% | #231 of 282 | #33 of 35 |
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
569
-74 (-12%) vs 2020
-1% since 2000-01, when it was 577
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 569 | 45.7 | 12.5:1 | 53% (303) |
| 2023-24 | 571 | 51.7 | 11.1:1 | 46% (263) |
| 2022-23 | 579 | 51.2 | 11.3:1 | 34% (197) |
| 2020-21 | 643 | 47 | 13.7:1 | 42% (273) |
| 2017-18 | 588 | 41.4 | 14.2:1 | 47% (279) |
| 2015-16 | 593 | 41 | 14.5:1 | 52% (307) |
| 2010-11 | 533 | 27 | 19.7:1 | 42% (222) |
| 2000-01 | 577 | 24 | 24.0:1 | 24% (141) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Memorial Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (588 to 569); teachers up 10% (41.4 to 45.7).
About Memorial Middle School
Memorial Middle School is a mid-sized middle school in ELMWOOD PARK, New Jersey, one of the schools in Elmwood Park School District. Federal data show 569 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25.
Elmwood Park School District enrolls 2,597 students, and its 5 schools include Memorial Middle School.
The largest racial or ethnic group at Memorial Middle School is Hispanic, with 48% of students. Enrollment also includes 30% White, 13% Black, and 7% Asian. The school's Hispanic share is 25 points above the 23% share among Bergen County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 66%.
There are 45.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at Memorial Middle School, giving a ratio of 12.5:1. Middle schools in New Jersey average 10.9:1, 1.6 fewer students per teacher than here. A total of 303 students, or 53%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Bergen County report 28%.
Memorial Middle School earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 16% of New Jersey public middle schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Memorial Middle School, the prediction is 37.0% and the result is 29.7%.
In the surrounding county, Bergen County, median household income comes to about $124,884, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 291, with about 133,883 students.
Memorial Middle School is less than a tenth of a mile from Memorial Senior High School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, Memorial Middle School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Memorial Middle School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
The school shrank from 643 students in 2020-21 to 569 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 13.7:1 to 12.5:1.
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Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elmwood Park School District
- Memorial Senior High SchoolHigh · 823 students
- Gilbert Avenue SchoolElementary · 456 students
- Sixteenth Avenue SchoolElementary · 410 students
- Gantner Avenue SchoolElementary · 339 students
Other schools in ELMWOOD PARK
- Memorial Senior High SchoolHigh · 823 students
- Gilbert Avenue SchoolElementary · 456 students
- Sixteenth Avenue SchoolElementary · 410 students
- Gantner Avenue SchoolElementary · 339 students
Other Memorial Middle schools
24 other US public schools in 13 states are named Memorial Middle. Memorial Middle School is the 15th largest of the 25.
- Memorial Middle SchoolFAIR LAWN, NJ · 655 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolPOINT PLEASANT, NJ · 634 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolCedar Grove, NJ · 468 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolWoodland Park, NJ · 374 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolLITTLE FERRY, NJ · 353 students
Nearby schools
- Memorial Senior High School0.0 mi · 823
- Gilbert Avenue School0.3 mi · 456
- School 200.6 mi · 343
- Students Transitioning and Achieving Real Success0.7 mi · 112
- Paterson STEAM High School0.7 mi · 379
- Sixteenth Avenue School0.8 mi · 410
Frequently asked questions
About Memorial Middle SchoolHow many students attend Memorial Middle School?
Memorial Middle School enrolls approximately 569 students in grades 06-08.
Is Memorial Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Memorial Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Memorial Middle School?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at Memorial Middle School.
How diverse is Memorial Middle School?
Memorial Middle School reports a student body of 30% White, 48% Hispanic, 13% Black, 7% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Memorial Middle School public or private?
Memorial Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Elmwood Park School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.