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Best kept secret at Mount Pleasant Middle School?
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Enrollment
530
Middle
DISTRICT 762 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LIVINGSTON BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340882002130
Mount Pleasant Middle School
11 BROADLAWN DR, LIVINGSTON, NJ 07039 · (973) 535-8000 · Essex County
GRADES 06–06MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL530 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of New Jersey public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
11.6:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
4%
21 students
DISTRICT 2% · 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 | 530 | 100% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Livingston Board of Education School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
83.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . -4.4pp since 2023
Math
77.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.4% | 77.3% |
| 2023-24 | 87.8% | 77.6% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
81.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Mount Pleasant Middle School
Mount Pleasant Middle School's state test result (81.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant Middle School this school | 530 | 4.0% | 81.5% |
| Tenakill Middle School CLOSTER | 593 | 2.4% | 72.2% |
| Charles DeWolf Middle School OLD TAPPAN | 370 | 0.8% | 76.0% |
| Cresskill Middle School Cresskill | 421 | 4.0% | 58.6% |
| Washington School Millburn | 363 | 2.2% | 80.8% |
| Tenafly Middle School TENAFLY | 916 | 4.8% | 73.9% |
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 Mount Pleasant Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.5% | #2 of 433 | #1 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.3% | #24 of 437 ▼ 10 | #4 of 28 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.4% | #40 of 437 ▼ 29 | #5 of 28 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 530 | #229 of 445 | #16 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #290 of 417 | #20 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.0% | #105 of 419 | #8 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 4.0% | #397 of 436 | #23 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.9% | #47 of 122 | #1 of 11 |
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
530
+44 (+9%) vs 2020
+52% since 1990-91, when it was 349
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 530 | 45.8 | 11.6:1 | 4% (21) |
| 2023-24 | 487 | 38.8 | 12.6:1 | 3% (13) |
| 2022-23 | 474 | 37.2 | 12.7:1 | 2% (8) |
| 2020-21 | 486 | 41 | 11.8:1 | 2% (8) |
| 2017-18 | 478 | 42 | 11.4:1 | 2% (10) |
| 2015-16 | 464 | 38 | 12.2:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2010-11 | 431 | 28 | 15.4:1 | 1% (6) |
| 2000-01 | 408 | 31 | 13.2:1 | 1% (3) |
| 1990-91 | 349 | 28 | 12.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mount Pleasant Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 11% (478 to 530); teachers up 9% (42 to 45.8).
About Mount Pleasant Middle School
Mount Pleasant Middle School is one of the public schools in LIVINGSTON, New Jersey. It is a mid-sized middle-grades school. Enrollment totals 530 students across grade 6.
The Livingston Board of Education School District system has 9 schools and 6,352 students.
The student body at Mount Pleasant Middle School has no majority group. Asian students lead at 43%. The remaining shares are 39% White, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 5% multiracial. Essex County as a whole is about 6% Asian, so the school's share is higher. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 65, compared with 70 nationally.
Mount Pleasant Middle School reported 45.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 11.6:1. The 10.9:1 average for middle schools in New Jersey is close to this figure. There are 21 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 4% of enrollment. That rate is below the 54% average among public schools in Essex County.
On the allk12 Grade, Mount Pleasant Middle School lands at A+, ahead of 99% of New Jersey public middle schools.
Mount Pleasant Middle School outperforms its prediction by 17.5 points. The model expects 64.0% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in New Jersey; the school's rate is 81.5%.
For Essex County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $80,789, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county has 249 public schools and about 145,473 students.
Mount Pleasant Elementary School is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Mount Pleasant Middle School places 2nd out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 486 to 530, a 9% gain.
This page is set up for the Mount Pleasant Middle School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Livingston Board of Education School District
- Livingston High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 994 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolElementary · 522 students
- Riker Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 477 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
- Collins Elementary SchoolElementary · 440 students
Other schools in LIVINGSTON
- Livingston High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 994 students
- Harrison Elementary SchoolElementary · 522 students
- Riker Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 477 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
- Collins Elementary SchoolElementary · 440 students
Other Mount Pleasant Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Mount Pleasant Middle. Mount Pleasant Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Mount Pleasant MiddleMount Pleasant, NC · 660 students
- Mount Pleasant Middle SchoolMount Pleasant, IA · 383 students
Nearby schools
- Mount Pleasant Elementary School0.1 mi · 407
- Harrison Elementary School0.7 mi · 522
- Liberty Middle School1.0 mi · 559
- Hillside Elementary School1.2 mi · 476
- Livingston High School1.2 mi · 2,081
- Mount Pleasant Elementary School1.3 mi · 349
Frequently asked questions
About Mount Pleasant Middle SchoolHow many students attend Mount Pleasant Middle School?
Mount Pleasant Middle School enrolls approximately 530 students in grades 06-06.
What grades does Mount Pleasant Middle School serve?
Mount Pleasant Middle School serves grades 06-06.
How many teachers does Mount Pleasant Middle School have?
Mount Pleasant Middle School employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mount Pleasant Middle School?
At Mount Pleasant Middle School, the student body is approximately 39% White, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black, 43% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Mount Pleasant Middle School public or private?
Mount Pleasant Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Livingston Board of Education School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.