Piscataway Magnet School

Piscataway Magnet School, a cozy four-year high school in PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, operated by Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District, teaches 640 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Piscataway Magnet School is one of 5 schools operated by Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District, a district that teaches 2,115 students overall.

On demographics, Piscataway Magnet School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 17% White, 10% Black, 8% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, Piscataway Magnet School reports 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Piscataway Magnet School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Piscataway Magnet School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.4%, the actual is 33.9%, a residual of +3.5 points.

Across the wider county, 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%. Piscataway Magnet School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

The closest other public school is Future Foundations Academy (FFA), roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Piscataway Magnet School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 64%: 391 students in 2018 compared to 640 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 70% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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