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Readington Middle School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Readington Middle School
Readington Middle School is one of the low-enrollment junior highs in WHITEHOUSE STATION, New Jersey, overseen by Readington Township School District, with 466 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.
Across the 4 schools in Readington Township School District (1,402 students total), Readington Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, Readington Middle School reports that 74% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 14% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Readington Middle School has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.7:1. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, Readington Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.0%, the actual is 53.9%, a residual of -5.1 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hunterdon County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $141,715 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hunterdon County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,056 students), Readington Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Holland Brook School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Readington Middle School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.6%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Readington Middle School has shrank 19%, going from 577 students in 2018 to 466 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 85% to 74% over that span.
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