Pathways Middle School

Located at 40 VAN DYKE AVENUE, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Pathways Middle School is a modestly sized 6-8 campus that instructs 262 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within New Brunswick School District. Enrollment runs roughly 55% leaner than the state mean of about 578.

Pathways Middle School is one of 13 schools operated by New Brunswick School District, a district that instructs 8,337 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Pathways Middle School shows that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Middlesex County's rate of about 42%.

In the area at large, census data for Middlesex County shows the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), Pathways Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mckinley Community School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.