Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School

Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School is a minimally staffed senior high in MIDLAND PARK, New Jersey, run under Midland Park School District. The school enrolls 367 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 60% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Midland Park School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 906 students. Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School logs that White students make up the majority at 72%. The remainder is composed of 22% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 8% of students at Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bergen County (around 28%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.0%, the actual is 58.3%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the area at large, Bergen County reports that median household income runs about $124,884, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School is one of 291 public schools in Bergen County (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students).

The closest other public school is Godwin Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 68.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 442 (now 367). White enrollment moved from 83% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 today.

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