Perth Amboy Magnet School

Perth Amboy Magnet School, an one-room-style high school in PERTH AMBOY, New Jersey, operated by Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District, educates 269 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 71% leaner than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Within Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District, which oversees 5 schools and 2,115 students, Perth Amboy Magnet School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Perth Amboy Magnet School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% Black, 10% White. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Perth Amboy Magnet School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Middlesex County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Perth Amboy Magnet School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.5%; this one delivers 38.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), Perth Amboy Magnet School is one campus in the mix.

Anthony V. Ceres Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Perth Amboy Magnet School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 20.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 285 students in 2018 compared to 269 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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