Montgomery Upper Middle School

Set in Skillman, New Jersey, Montgomery Upper Middle School is a mid-sized junior high, operated by Montgomery Township School District. It caters to 760 students across grades 7 through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Montgomery Upper Middle School sits 31% above that benchmark.

Montgomery Township School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 4,397 students; Montgomery Upper Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Montgomery Upper Middle School logs that Asian students make up the majority at 60%. Beyond that, the school lists 27% White, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 6% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Somerset County (around 28%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Montgomery Upper Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.0%, the actual is 75.5%, a residual of +12.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Somerset County) reports that median household earnings sit near $140,374, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Montgomery Upper Middle School is one of 84 public schools in Somerset County (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students).

Montgomery Lower Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Montgomery Upper Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Montgomery Upper Middle School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 77.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Montgomery Upper Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 826 (now 760). The White share of enrollment edged down from 41% to 27% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Montgomery Upper Middle School typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.