Middlesex High School

Middlesex High School is one of the small 9-12 campuss in MIDDLESEX, New Jersey, part of Middlesex Borough School District, with 597 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Middlesex High School sits 36% below that benchmark.

Middlesex High School is one of 6 schools operated by Middlesex Borough School District, a district that works with 2,027 students overall.

On demographics, Middlesex High School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 38% White, 8% Asian, 7% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Middlesex High School shows 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Middlesex High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.8%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Middlesex County) shows that median household income runs about $111,549, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Middlesex High School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

The closest other public school is Parker Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Middlesex High School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 635 students in 2018 compared to 597 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 55% to 38%.

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